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	Toots Thielemans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean "Toots" Thielemans (born Brussels, April 29, 1922) is a Belgian jazz artist well known for his guitar, harmonica play and also for his highly accomplished professional whistling.
		So, to these ends Thielemans was perhaps the "ultimate precursor" to the many commercially successful artists that followed him employing the guitar/harmonica combo including John Lennon and Bob Dylan even though their respective musical fields and styles within music itself couldn't have been more different or more varied.
		A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette" where he used whistling and guitar in unison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toots_Thielemans (635 words)

	Toots Thielemans - The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives
		Toots Thielemans was born in Brussels in 1922.
		In 2001, Toots was again honoured on a number of occasions, after his "bluesette" already had been introduced in the "eregallerij van het Vlaamse lied" by Radio 2, aside Will Tura, Rocco Granata, La Esterella en Bobbejaan Schoepen.
		- Toots Thielemans and Kenny Wener (Universal, 2001)
	houbi.com /belpop/groups/toots.htm (1147 words)

	Toots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toots is now in his 70's, so 14 years ago he still would have been considered an elderly gentleman.
		Toots spoke about traveling in Japan, and that Jaco would normally leave at the last minute to catch the trains to the next gig.
		Toots asked Jaco to please tell him in advance when it was time to catch the trains to the gigs, so he could walk at a leisurely pace to the train stations.
	www.noah2900.dk /toots.htm (228 words)

	Toots Thielemans Biography: MarsJazz Booking Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toots was always musical, fooling around with an accordion as early as age three.
		Toots emigrated to the U.S. in 1950, jamming regularly at Birdland in New York City.
		Thielemans proved to be a fine accompanist for vocalists as well, and through the years, his harmonica has complemented such diverse singers as Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel and many others.
	www.marsjazz.com /tootstbio.html (835 words)

	Toots Thielemans: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jean "Toots" Thielemans (born Brussels Brussels quick summary:
		Jazz standard refers to a tune that is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians....
		[For more, click on this link] by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette" where he used whistling whistling quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/toots_thielemans.htm (645 words)

	Famous Belgians - Toots Thielemans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toots hates his favourite instrument, the harmonica, being called a 'miscellaneous instrument'.
		Toots succeeded in doing something that is very difficult for Jazz musicians: being well-known by the general public and still practice high-class Jazz.
		Receiving the high appreciation of his peers and connoisseurs is no mean feat and Toots is regularly voted first in his category in the famous Down Beat Jazz Magazine in the USA by critics and public.
	www.famousbelgians.net /toots.htm (621 words)

	Harmonica great Toots Thielemans finds renewed vigor - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Toots Thielemans talks about jazz and his musical life with the enthusiasm of a new convert, even though he is 80 and his career dates back to World War II.
		His current album is called "Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner" and reflects the musical understanding these two musicians have in their presentation of beautiful songs "that are somewhere between a smile and a tear," he says.
		So, in 1980, when Thielemans had a stroke that slowed down his string speed, he was able to move with more dedication to the harmonica.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_96995.html (691 words)

	Toots Thielemans - Verve Records
		Toots simply plays the harmonica with the dexterity of a saxophonist and has even successfully traded off with the likes of Oscar Peterson.
		Toots Thielemans' first instrument was the accordion, which he started when he was three.
		Toots' two-volume Brasil Project was popular in the 1990s and found him smoothly interacting on harmonica with top Brazilian musicians.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /artist.aspx?ob=per&src=prd&aid=2849 (302 words)

	NPR : Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Toots Thielemans
		Jean Baptiste 'Toots' Thielemans was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1922.
		Toots has been a member of Charlie Parker's All Stars and the George Shearing Quartet and is the perennial winner of the Down Beat Readers and Critics Poll in the "miscellaneous instruments" category.
		Thielemans holds honorary degrees from both of Belgium's top schools, the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
	www.npr.org /programs/pianojazz/previousguests/winter2005/toots.html (253 words)

	Toots Thielemans - CD Reviews The Jazz Zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toots is one of the last of a dying breed of everlasting poets of jazz.
		Toots shows us his skills as a writer with the delicate rose petal lines in, "Hard to say goodbye." Again, Kenny Werner serves as a more than appropriate accompanist to Toot's style.
		Toots is all heart on this and a nice keyboard solo by Michel Herr takes us downstream.
	members.aol.com /plabjazz/toots.html (1033 words)

	Trading Rubatos With the Virtuoso Who Pioneered Solo Harmonica - New York Times
		Thielemans, who turns 84 next month, has gamboled through seemingly the entire landscape of mainstream jazz during his career; from gypsy swing to bebop and every variety since.
		Thielemans at Carnegie Hall on Thursday night, and it was no surprise that a warm and blithesome feeling prevailed.
		Thielemans likes to luxuriate in a melody; his most natural cadence is a regal yet confessional rubato.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/18/arts/music/18toot.html?ex=1300338000&en=f4bc5d54a8aa9b20&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (623 words)

	Toots Thielemans \| Do Not Leave Me
		On the last two tracks, Thielemans plays guitar (not badly at all!), and on âBluesetteâ (which he wrote, and is âhisâ song) he whistles and plays guitar in unison, which he is famous for and, apparently uncoached, the audience whistles along with him.
		Thielemans is obviously the leader, but he gives his bandmates plenty of room to play.
		Thielemans is a world treasure, and if you haven't heard him, this might be the perfect place to start.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18761 (594 words)

	VOA News - Toots Thielemans Pays Tribute to Harold Arlen
		Toots Thielemans may not be a household name, but his music has been heard by millions the world over.
		Jean "Toots" Thielemans was 30 years old when he came to the United States from his native Belgium in 1952.
		A special concert dedicated to the harmonica master, called "The Magic Of Toots: A Celebration of Toots Thielemans," was held before a capacity crowd at Carnegie Hall on March 16.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-04-30-voa1.cfm (447 words)

	San Diego Music Scene > Fun . Sign On San Diego . Com : Live music event listings, ticket alerts, reviews, venues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Toots emigrated to the United States in 1952, and has since become a seminal figure in jazz history.
		Toots is most comfortable in bop territory, but he's not limited to the jazz idiom.
		Thielemans is known for his sweet sound and his ever-present smile; he surely influenced a generation of jazz musicians.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/181330 (169 words)

	Billy Taylor's Jazz \| Guest Artist
		The conversation quickly leads into Thielemans' recollection of sitting in with a bebop band in Miami, where composer Quincy Jones commented on Thielemans' blues sensibilities.
		Thielemans answers by saying that he has always been accepted as a musician.
		With both passionate discussion and informative demonstrations, Thielemans talks about the mechanics of Brazil's melancholy harmonies, which he describes as between a smile and a tear.
	www.npr.org /programs/btaylor/pastprograms/toots.html (529 words)

	RGJ.com - Harmonica hero, piano prodigy come to Reno
		Later, on the telephone, Thielemans laughs, because he knows all the fame and ability doesn’t mean beans if you don’t like the peculiar humming sound of his chosen instrument.
		“Toots Thielemans is one of the great lyrical improvisers on the most unlikely of instruments,” says Fred Sturm, director of jazz studies at the Eastman School, and of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble.
		One of his would-be bandmates thought of the name Toots, because there was a guy with that name in Benny Goodman’s orchestra, and another one who played for Jimmy Dorsey.
	www.rgj.com /news/stories/entertainment/973210584.php (813 words)

	Rochester International Jazz Festival - ARTIST LINEUP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During this period, Toots had also begun recording under his own name, and by 1958 had cut The Sound-The Amazing Toots Thielemans (Columbia), Man Bites Harmonica (Riverside) and Time Out (Decca).
		In 1961, Thielemans recorded his most enduring composition, "Bluesette", which remains a staple of live sets by Toots to this day and has been recorded by scores of artists over the years.
		Pianist Bill Evans asked Toots to share a record date in 1978, the result being Affinity, an album which went a long way towards validating Thielemans as a preeminent jazz artist.
	www.rochesterjazz.com /artist_lineup?artist_id=5 (900 words)

	On Point : Toots Thielemans - 3/15/2002
		There is little doubt that you have heard the music of Jean 'Toots' Thielemans.
		The 80-year-old Thielemans is most famous for bringing the harmonica into jazz.
		Thielemans played on the soundtracks of such movies as "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Wiz," and his harmonica has complemented singers ranging from Ella Fitzgerald, to Paul Simon to Billy Joel and many others.
	www.onpointradio.org /shows/2002/03/20020315_b_main.asp (99 words)

	PhilMusic.com : » Toots Thielemans plays on Jose Mari Chan composition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thielemans is possibly best known among Filipinos for his composition “Bluesette,” now a standard staple of jazz groups.
		I had watched Toots play years ago in the NYC Birdland with Kenny Werner and he won me over from the first note.
		Despite Toots’ considerable age today (he should be like 84 years old this year) he still plays with such flair and perfect intonation.
	www.philmusic.com /blog/index.php?p=45 (268 words)

	Jazz Police - Trio Magic: Toots Thielemans, Kenny Werner, and Oscar Castro-Neves at the Dakota, 11/30-12/1
		When Toots Thielemans, Kenny Werner, and Oscar Castro-Neves come to Minneapolis this week for two nights at the Dakota, expect both embers and fireworks, along with some good humor, Brazilian melodies, and boundless joy and energy.
		Thielemans and Werner have been performing as a duo for years, and the addition of Brazilian guitar virtuoso Castro-Neves adds a new dimension to their typically sublime interaction.
		Thielemans invented a new sound --whistling while playing the guitar; he became a commercially successful "whistler," best known for his work for the Old Spice commercial and using his new technique in his famous composition, "Bluesette," in 1962.
	www.jazzpolice.com /content/view/4752/59 (1275 words)

	Pruning the Tree: Seven Decades of Jazz with Toots Thielemans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		Thielemans has won dozens of “best of” awards in Downbeat and other jazz magazines — where his work on harmonica is usually categorized as “Best Miscellaneous Instrument.” But as the late trumpeter Clifford brown once told him, “Toots, the way you play the harmonica, they should not call it a miscellaneous instrument!”
		Toots Thielemans: I bought my first harmonica when I was 18 years old on Brussels.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=1905 (2031 words)

	Stories from percussionist Airto Moreira
		Usually I play the drum set with Toots Thielemans and a little percussion, mainly drums to give them a stronger rhythm, since we don’t use a bass player.
		Toots would explain to the concert audience about these artists going to jail back then and how most of them did not even know why.
		Which were all great experiences, but Toots because of his emotion and love of life and musical knowledge, he is such a joy to play with.
	www.airto.com /airtooldsite/storys/toots.htm (663 words)

	Jazz Harmonica Master Toots Thielemans and Pianist Kenny Werner Will Perform Wednesday
		Thielemans’ legendary performances, defined by suave originality and elegance of phrase, have enchanted generations of music fans throughout the world.
		Thielemans played the accordian at age three and picked up harmonica as a hobby.
		Nicknamed "Toots" after musicians Toots Mondello and Toots Camarata, he earned his first international break by joining Benny Goodman on a European concert tour in 1950.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/4823 (721 words)

	Live in performance - Toots Thielemans Trio
		Toots Thielemans Trio - 02.26.04 - Jazz Alley, Seattle
		Jean "Toots" Thielemans, while the perennial winner of countless such polls, has elevated the harmonica to much more than a "miscellaneous instrument".
		Well into his 80's, Toot's harp swings with passion, lyricism, and rich melodic beauty.
	brucecmoore.com /pages/toots.html (75 words)

	Fresh Brazilian Breezes From Toots Thielemans
		Joining the 78-year-old master were the brilliant pianist Kenny Werner, a fluid and inventive improviser with whom Thielemans has a great affinity, and Oscar Castro-Neves, the noted Brazilian guitarist and composer who arranged the music on Thielemans' splendid ``Brasil Project'' CDs released in the early '90s.
		Thielemans played sighing phrases and moaning low tones over Castro-Neves' gentle guitar chords and the sound of synthesized strings played by Werner, whose rhapsodic piano solo was pure feeling.
		The same could be said of the duet he and Thielemans did on the melancholy Miles Davis-Bill Evans classic ``Blue in Green.'' Thielemans' heartrending solo contrasted quick, jabbing phrases, silence and drawn-out whispers.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/07/DD20694.DTL&type=printable (491 words)

	SFJAZZ Fall 2005 - Toots Theilemans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A more all-encompassing tribute to Thielemans’ mastery came from the pen of producer Quincy Jones, who wrote in the liner notes to his 1995 disc, Q’s Jook Joint: “I can say without hesitation that Toots is one of the greatest musicians of our time.
		Joining Toots Thielemans on-stage this evening is one of the founding fathers of the Brazilian bossa nova, the great guitarist and composer/arranger Oscar Castro-Neves.
		Of his longstanding collaborations with Thielemans, the Los Angeles Times has written, “The partnership of harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans and pianist Kenny Werner is one of the great pleasures in jazz.
	www.sfjazz.org /concerts/fall05/artists/toots.html (730 words)

	JS Online:Virtuoso Toots Thielemans never far from harmonica
		Toots Thielemans has been entertaining Americans since U.S. forces liberated his native Brussels during World War II.
		February's Pabst visitors, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, came to Milwaukee directly from one of the nation's premier concert venues, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, two nights before mouth organ master Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans presents the fourth concert in the Leonard season, he'll be honored at New York's storied Carnegie Hall.
		Thielemans has been entertaining Americans since 1944 when he played for liberating GIs in Belgium.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=407906 (790 words)

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