Toots Thielemans
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Toots Thielemans – Midnight Cowboy
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Biography
Brussels, Belgium (1949 – present)
Thielemans started his career as a guitar player. In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others. In 1951 he went on tour with Bobbejaan Schoepen.
He moved to the United States in 1952 where he was a member of Charlie Parker’s All-Stars. He played and recorded with names like Ella Fitzgerald, The George Shearing Quintet, Quincy Jones, Bill Evans, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Astrud Gilberto, Elis Regina and others.
A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is “
Bluesette” where he used whistling and guitar in unison. Bluesette became a major 1962 world-wide hit for him and this still much beloved and requested piece has been re-recorded by him and commercially released on records/CDs many times over both in various studio versions and live on-stage performances performed in several different countries.
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Chez Toots
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The Brasil Project
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Columbia Jazz
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Bluesette
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WodkaLover
My nigga !
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Menno75
Legend. Happy 90th.
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pretfles
Happy Birthday beste Toots
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berlangtoulouse
The spiritual son of Toots Thielemans, Olivier Ker Ourio ... http://berlang-images.over-blog.com/article-olivier-ker-ourio-manuel-rocheman-trio-a-toulouse-________-jazz-sur-son-31-86610247.html
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berlangtoulouse
Last year, I had been listening to Toots Thielemans, passing through Toulouse. I was amazed by the energy of that venerable musician, that I discovered in my teens. I took the opportunity to capture this "event" on my blog: pictures and videos: http://berlang-images.over-blog.com/article-toots-thielemans-quartet-a-toulouse-saint-orens-jazz-sur-son-31-58756680.html bernard (Toulouse, France)
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berlangtoulouse
L'an passé, j'étais allé écouter Toots Thielemans, de passage à Toulouse. J'ai été émerveillé par l'énergie de ce vénérable musicien, que j'avais découvert dans mon adolescence. J'en ai profité pour immortaliser cet "évènement" sur mon blog : photos et vidéos : http://berlang-images.over-blog.com/article-toots-thielemans-quartet-a-toulouse-saint-orens-jazz-sur-son-31-58756680.html bernard (Toulouse, France)
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dardar227
The best harmonica player ever. After Toots would be Stevie Wonder and Lee Oskar (War).
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DELGARJO
Félicitations pour le JJA Jazz Award. Un abrazo maestro.
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Geert-3
Toots' birthday was yesterday. Congratulations!
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Weslii
For My Lady :)
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AlexXxandre53
A GOD!
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barryvs
A boss.
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alrm20
Incredible!
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begily
Blues Pour Flirter is a very enjoyable album.
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Ibby2506
This is brilliant.
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exprof
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colorsanto
Anybody to discuss the resemblance of Toots Thielemans hummin with Portishead stye? What about the reberb vocals?
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kaly_
88 !!! Happy Birthday! Be healthy, cheerful and lucky!
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catastrophique
toots thielemans' ne me quitte pas... the first song i've heard in my entire life that almost made me cry the first time i heard it.
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Christien67
He's got the touch of genius
All 37 shouts
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