"Bluesette" question

Lango-Django

Great! Thanks for sharing, Carlo.

For a younger generation who may be unaware of Toots’ place in musical history, I recommend this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toots_Thielemans

…and this…

… Stevie Wonder playing harmonica with his musical mentor Toots…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSJH8iVdJg

pdg

You should also look up David Naiditch -- a current chromatic harmonica player who has recorded with Gonzalo and Joscho.

Lango-Django

Why did John Lennon choose a Rickenbacker guitar?

billyshakes

Don't know if Toots plays a harp better than he whistles or vice versa. He is incredibly good at both. 🇧🇪

Lango-Django

This kind of says it all...

Early years[edit]

Thielemans was born in Brussels on 29 April 1922.[5] His parents owned a café.[4] He began playing music at an early age, using a homemade accordion at age three.[6] During the German occupation of Belgiumbeginning in 1940, he became attracted to jazz, but was then playing on full-size accordion or a harmonica, which he taught himself to play in his teens.[4][7]

After being introduced to the music of Belgian-born jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt, he became inspired to teach himself guitar, which he did by listening to Reinhardt's recordings.[6] At the time he was a college student majoring in math.[8] By the war's end in 1945, he considered himself a full-time musician.[4] He said in 1950, "Django is still one of my main influences, I think, for lyricism. He can make me cry when I hear him."[9] During an interview in 1988, he recalled, "I guess I was born at the right time to live and adapt and be touched by the evolution in the jazz language."[7]