The title of "jazz legend" is thrown around a bit loosely these days, but there's no doubt that Toots Thielemans clearly qualifies for that accolade. Born in 1922 in Brussels, Belgium, Jean Baptiste ...

Jazz--the quintessential open door genre--has a capacity to beautifully integrate all kinds of sources. From music from faraway places to compositions written and instruments used for completely ...

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, ...

A Belgian-born harmonica virtuoso, Toots Thielemans had been a professional musician for more than 70 years at the time of his death at 94 in 2016. His was a kind of a mega-career that encompassed ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Toots Thielemans, the Belgian jazz harmonica and guitar player who worked with many of the postwar greats, died on Monday aged 94, his agency said. Born in Brussels in 1922, ...

The prolific jazz harmonica player, who passed away in 2016, joined Marian McPartland in 2005. Toots Thielemans On Piano Jazz This week, Piano Jazz remembers Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans (1922 – ...

Although he admittedly never had much in the way of competition, Toots Thielemans was the greatest harmonica player in jazz history. Also a fine guitarist and perhaps the most accomplished whistler ...

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 ...

The Belgian-American musician, also known for his guitar playing and whistling, performed with the stars of postwar jazz and was widely heard on... Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans, the ...

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 ...