Artist................... Toots Thielemans
Album.....................One More for the Road
Label.....................Verve
Genre.....................Jazz
Release...................04/21/2006
Street....................xx/xx/2006
Encoder...................LAME 3.97 beta
Quality...................--aps 44.1kHz/joint
# NAME TiME
01. Come Rain or Come Shine 04:42
(with Lizz Wright)
02. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue 02:40
Sea (with Madeleine Peyroux)
03. Last Night When We Were Young 05:14
(with Silje Nergaard)
04. Ill Wind 03:55
05. One for My Baby (with Jamie Cullum) 05:09
06. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 03:05
(with Beth Hart)
07. I Wonder What Became of Me 04:04
(with Trijntje Oosterhuis)
08. That Old Black Magic 04:19
09. This Time the Dream's on Me 04:47
(with Till Bronner)
10. Stormy Weather (with Oleta Adams) 05:34
11. It's Only A Paper Moon 03:47
(with Laura Fygi)
12. Over the Rainbow (Bonus Track) 05:50
Although preceded by Larry Adler (who has actually
spent much of his career playing popular and classical
music), Toots Thielemans virtually introduced the
chromatic harmonica as a jazz instrument. In fact, ever
since the mid-'50s, he has had no close competitors.
Toots simply plays the harmonica with the dexterity of
a saxophonist and has even successfully traded off with
the likes of Oscar Peterson.
Toots Thielemans' first instrument was the accordion,
which he started when he was three. Although he started
playing the harmonica when he was 17, Thielemans'
original reputation was made as a guitarist who was
influenced by Django Reinhardt. Very much open to bop,
Thielemans played in American GI clubs in Europe,
visited the U.S. for the first time in 1947, and shared
the bandstand with Charlie Parker at the Paris Jazz
Festival of 1949. He toured Europe as a guitarist with
the Benny Goodman Sextet in 1950, and the following
year moved to the U.S. During 1953-1959, Toots was a
member of the George Shearing quintet (mostly as a
guitarist) and has freelanced ever since. He first
recorded his big hit "Bluesette" (which featured his
expert whistling and guitar) in 1961, and ever since
has been greatly in demand (particularly for his
harmonica and his whistling) on pop records (including
many dates with Quincy Jones) and as a jazz soloist.
Toots' two-volume Brasil Project was popular in the
1990s and found him smoothly interacting on harmonica
with top Brazilian musicians.
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