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Toots Thielemans
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Out of 57 votes - Similar Artists: Ron McCroby, Charlie Byrd, Shorty Rogers
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Out of 57 votes
- Genre: Jazz » Contemporary Jazz
Editor's review
The harmonica is an ideal jazz instrument, with its embedded scale, but it took this Belgian player's recordings to prove it to the populace. Now Thielemans is jamming with the new generation--his '06 record is highlighted by a terrific, retro-cool ballad with Jamie Cullum.
Biography
In this musical puzzle, all the pieces fit together. There is even a bond with Ruud Jacobs, who produced together with Thielemans many successful Dutch jazz recordings in the Seventies. And arranger Jurre Haanstra is responsible for the music for Baantjer, one of the Netherlands' most long-running and successful TV detective series, and whose plaintive harmonica opening melody is played by , you guessed it, Toots Thielemans.
The biggest success story on this CD, however, remains the Belgian master himself who, although well into his eighties, is still producing beautiful music, blowing note after note, way up high, somewhere over the rainbow.
- Imme Schade van Westrum
