Howard Levy’s played the harmonica for almost 50 years. He’s really the first to turn the diatonic harmonica into a jazz instrument. And yet, he’s still trying to figure it out. He hears John Popper, ...

BRUSSELS (CBSNewYork/CBS News/AP)-- Belgian harmonica player Toots Thielemans, whose illustrious career included playing with jazz greats like Miles Davis and whose solos have figured on numerous film ...

Jazz harmonica virtuosos are not exactly in abundance, which should make Chicagoans feel fortunate that one of the most revered has been based here for decades. Even so, Howard Levy continues to ...

Jean-Baptiste Frederic Isidore Thielemans, known affectionately as “Toots”, died in his sleep in a Brussels hospital early on Monday. He was 94. Born in 1922 in the working-class Marolles district of ...

Brian Byrnes, who ran a construction business and raised a family in Marin before focusing on music, makes his debut as a band leader on this EP with his jazz trio. Byrnes wrote two of the record’s ...

Thielemans died in his sleep in a Belgian hospital on Monday, his manager said. He was hospitalized last month after a fall, but had been in good spirits after an operation on his shoulder. “He was so ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Brussels, Aug 22 (EFE).Brussels, Aug 22 (EFE). — The Belgian jazz harmonica legend Jean ‘Toots’ Thielemans died on Monday at 94, announced his agent. The artist had been in the hospital for a month as ...

Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans, the Belgian-American musician who cut a singular path as a jazz harmonica player, died in his sleep Monday in his hometown of Brussels. He was 94. He began his ...

Toots Thielemans, a jazz harmonica player, guitarist and whistler whose 1961 composition “Bluesette” became a jazz standard, has died, the Associated Press reported Monday. He was 94. Belgian ...

His solos appeared on the film scores of 'Midnight Cowboy,' 'The Getaway' and 'Sugarland Express' and in the 'Sesame Street' theme music. By The Associated Press Belgian harmonica player Toots ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian musician Toots Thielemans, who turned the lowly harmonica into a virtuoso jazz instrument during an illustrious career that saw him perform with such legends as Charlie Parker, ...