Toots Thielemans became famous as a master of two techniques that have otherwise made hardly a mark on jazz history - whistling, and playing the harmonica. The Belgian was no novelty turn, however, but a remarkable musician who adapted the advanced harmonies, hairtrigger accents and nimble melodies of the bebop idiom to a 19th-century Austrian instrument originally intended for the more leisurely rhythms of folk music, and who matched his jazz virtuosity with considerable emotional expressiveness and warmth. Thielemans recorded with some of the most popular - and technically demanding - artists in jazz, including the bass-guitar virtuoso Jaco Pastorius, the piano maestros Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Fred Hersch and Kenny Werner, the innovative pop-jazz bandleader Quincy Jones, and the guitar star Pat Metheny. That richly accordion-toned, wittily pitch-bending and sometimes ravishingly romantic harmonica sound (he played a custom-built chromatic instrument that allowed him to roam through three octaves) featured on the soundtracks of movies including Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The Sugarland Express (1974) - and brought a steady stream of studio work, including the Sesame Street theme tune, high-profile commercials, and appearances on albums by Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Johnny Mathis, among others. - John Fordham, The Guardian, Obituary for Toots in August 2016.
Brings a tear to my eye, remembering how the great Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart, used to play this wonderful standard. From the very beginning, the mood is created.
Well may we remember Clifford, because his music is of the first rank.
Toots Thielemans became famous as a master of two techniques that have otherwise made hardly a mark on jazz history - whistling, and playing the harmonica. The Belgian was no novelty turn, however, but a remarkable musician who adapted the advanced harmonies, hairtrigger accents and nimble melodies of the bebop idiom to a 19th-century Austrian instrument originally intended for the more leisurely rhythms of folk music, and who matched his jazz virtuosity with considerable emotional expressiveness and warmth.
Thielemans recorded with some of the most popular - and technically demanding - artists in jazz, including the bass-guitar virtuoso Jaco Pastorius, the piano maestros Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Fred Hersch and Kenny Werner, the innovative pop-jazz bandleader Quincy Jones, and the guitar star Pat Metheny. That richly accordion-toned, wittily pitch-bending and sometimes ravishingly romantic harmonica sound (he played a custom-built chromatic instrument that allowed him to roam through three octaves) featured on the soundtracks of movies including Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The Sugarland Express (1974) - and brought a steady stream of studio work, including the Sesame Street theme tune, high-profile commercials, and appearances on albums by Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Johnny Mathis, among others.
- John Fordham, The Guardian, Obituary for Toots in August 2016.
Brings a tear to my eye, remembering how the great Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart, used to play this wonderful standard. From the very beginning, the mood is created.
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