Latest Release
- 19 JAN 2024
- 12 Songs
- The Brasil Project, Vol. 2 · 1992
- Chambre Avec Vue · 2000
- The Brasil Project · 1992
- Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner · 1986
- Footprints · 1990
- Chez Toots · 1998
- Between a Smile and a Tear · 2005
- Chez Toots · 1998
- The Soul of Toots Thielemans (feat. Oliver Jackson, Ray Bryant & Tommy Bryant) · 1960
- The Real... Toots Thielemans · 1962
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- Eugene Maslov
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- Richard Galliano
- Thierry Lang Trio
- Doug Duke, Clark Terry, Ned Washington, Toots Thielemans, Teddy Wilson & Vic Dickerson
About Toots Thielemans
A child prodigy, Toot Thielemans played the accordion at the age of three, switching to harmonica (and guitar) in his mid-teens. Guitar aside, Thielemans' chosen instruments were not especially suited to jazz, but he displayed enough invention and assurance to be hired by Benny Goodman for a European tour in 1950, afterwards joining George Shearing in 1953 for a five-year stint. In the '60s, his popularity increased with a successful recording of his own composition, "Bluesette," and he worked frequently in clubs in Europe and the U.S. and at international festivals. He subsequently played with leading artists such as Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie, and contributed to many film soundtracks, including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Midnight Cowboy.
- HOMETOWN
- Brussels, Belgium
- BORN
- 29 April 1922
- GENRE
- Jazz