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Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian and Americanjazz musician. He was known for his harmonica playing, as well as his guitar, whistling skills, and composing. According to jazz historian Ted Gioia, his most important contribution was in "championing the humble harmonica", which Thielemans made into a "legitimate voice in jazz".  He eventually became the "preeminent" jazz harmonica player. 
His first professional performances were with Benny Goodman's band when they toured Europe in 1949 and 1950. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1951, becoming a citizen in 1957. From 1953 to 1959 he played with George Shearing, and then led his own groups on tours in the U.S. and Europe. In 1961 he recorded and performed live one of his own compositions, "Bluesette", which featured him playing guitar and whistling. In the 1970s and 1980s, he continued touring and recording, appearing with musicians such as Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Werner, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Elis Regina and Paquito D'Rivera.
Among the film soundtracks that Thielemans recorded are The Pawnbroker (1964), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Sugarland Express(1974) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). His harmonica theme song for the popular Sesame Street TV show was heard for 40 years. He often performed and recorded with Quincy Jones, who once called him "one of the greatest musicians of our time."In 2009 he was designated a Jazz Master by The National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor for a jazz musician in the United States.
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Toots Thielemans virtually introduced the chromatic harmonica as a jazz instrument. In fact, beginning in the mid-'50s, he never had a close competitor. Thielemans simply played the harmonica with the dexterity of a saxophonist and even successfully traded off with the likes of Oscar Peterson.
Thielemans' first instrument was the accordion, which he started when he was three. Although he started playing the harmonica when he was 17, Thielemans' original reputation was made as a guitarist who was influenced by Django Reinhardt. Very much open to bop, Thielemans played in American GI clubs in Europe, visited the U.S. for the first time in 1947, and shared the bandstand with Charlie Parker at the Paris Jazz Festival of 1949. He toured Europe as a guitarist with the Benny Goodman Sextet in 1950, and the following year moved to the U.S. During 1953-1959, Toots was a member of the George Shearing Quintet(mostly as a guitarist) and freelanced for the remainder of his lengthy career in music.
He first recorded his big hit, "Bluesette" (which featured his expert whistling and guitar) in 1961, and was subsequently in great demand (particularly for his harmonica and his whistling) on pop records (including many dates with Quincy Jones) and as a jazz soloist. Toots' two-volume Brasil Project was popular in the 1990s and found him smoothly interacting on harmonica with top Brazilian musicians. Heard on numerous movie soundtracks (including Breakfast at Tiffany's and Midnight Cowboy) and also on the opening theme of television's Sesame Street, Thielemans received Jazz Master honors from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2009. He died in Belgium in August 2016 at the age of 94.
(Artist Biography by Scott Yanow)
Toots Thielemans obituary 
A passing glance at the six-decade career of Jean Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans, who has died aged 94, suggests a quirky contrarian more than a sophisticated musical virtuoso. Thielemans became famous as a master of two techniques that have otherwise made hardly a mark on jazz history – whistling, and playing the harmonica. The Belgian was no novelty turn, however, but a remarkable musician who adapted the advanced harmonies, hairtrigger accents and nimble melodies of the bebop idiom to a 19th-century Austrian instrument originally intended for the more leisurely rhythms of folk music, and who matched his jazz virtuosity with considerable emotional expressiveness and warmth.
Thielemans recorded with some of the most popular – and technically demanding – artists in jazz, including the bass-guitar virtuoso Jaco Pastorius, the piano maestros Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Fred Hersch and Kenny Werner, the innovative pop-jazz bandleader Quincy Jones, and the guitar star Pat Metheny. That richly accordion-toned, wittily pitch-bending and sometimes ravishingly romantic harmonica sound (he played a custom-built chromatic instrument that allowed him to roam through three octaves) featured on the soundtracks of movies including Midnight Cowboy (1969) and The Sugarland Express (1974) – and brought a steady stream of studio work, including the Sesame Street theme tune, high-profile commercials, and appearances on albums by Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Johnny Mathis, among others.



Born in the Marolles district of Brussels, Thielemans played the accordion from the age of three (eventually as an entertainer in his parents’ cafe) and the harmonica as a teenager, discovering jazz at 18 after hearing Louis Armstrong on record. In the early 1940s, inspired by his fellow Belgian Django Reinhardt, Thielemans also took up the guitar (adopting the nickname “Toots” in this period), performed with Edith Piaf, toured with the American swing giant Benny Goodman’s European band in 1950, and then moved to the US to perform with a Charlie Parker bebop band that included Miles Davis, and become a member of Shearing’s popular quintet. He led the expressive and intelligent Man Bites Harmonica! session in 1951, in classy American company that included the saxophonist Pepper Adams and the pianist Kenny Drew.
In this period, Thielemans also shuttled between the US and Sweden, and in Stockholm in 1961 recorded his much-covered jazz waltz Bluesette – a lilting, ostensibly unjazzy, but subtly blues-inflected theme originally delivered by the composer’s guitar line and pure-toned whistling in unison, a personal sound that became a brand.
Thielemans frequently worked with Jones (then a regular visitor to Sweden) and in the 1970s issued a stream of inventively contemporary albums including the dynamic Images with the pianist Joanne Brackeen. He partnered Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and the popular Cuban Latin-jazz saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera at the Montreux jazz festival in the 70s and early 80s, played with the pianist Bill Evans’s trio on Affinity in 1979 (one of his favourite sessions) and also made a superb bop-oriented 1980 live album with Peterson’s sidemen Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen on guitar and bass.
Subsequently, Thielemans led both European and American quartets – the latter featuring the elite Evans-inspired piano trio of Fred Hersch, the bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joey Baron. That group featured on the Belgian’s 1988 Concord recording Only Trust Your Heart, a jewel of a session contemporary enough to include Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil and creative enough to impart characteristic twists to Thelonious Monk’s classic Little Rootie Tootie. In 1992 Thielemans performed on Metheny’s intimate Secret Story, and on The Brasil Project with Brazilian stars including Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil.
Still possessed of his old wit and lyrical elegance into the 21st century, Thielemans made a sequence of fine recordings with a sensitive group including the Dutch bassist Hein Van de Geyn and the pianist Karel Boehlee. In 2009, the US National Endowment for the Arts made him a Jazz Master. His 90th birthday guests at Lincoln Center in 2012 included Herbie Hancock and the Brazilian singer-pianist Eliane Elias, and he continued to play in public until declining health led to his retirement two years later.
• Toots Thielemans (Jean Baptiste Frederic Isidore Thielemans), harmonica player, born 29 April 1922; died 22 August 2016





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 Dies at 94
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Toots Thielemans - Indian Nuts
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2.
Toots Thielemans - Flirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx6_k6--h4
3.
Toots Thielemans - Wives and Lovers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jo12NmE_UA
4.
Toots Thielemans - Bluesette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC1sWqn1Nho
5.
Toots Thielemans - Misty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs1zh7Mjnek
6.
Toots Thielemans - Five O'clock Whistle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9HGZfSjRp4
7.
Toots Thielemans - East of the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBUL5eBdHKs
8.
Toots Thielemans - So Rare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc7SErK6N7k
9.
Toots Thielemans - Falling in Love With Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGPqPIMQ3I
10.
Toots Thielemans - Honeysuckle Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmwNESR6MpQ
11.
Toots Thielemans - It's the Talk of the Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwl5a9LVUo
12.
Toots Thielemans - You Are My Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfqIvA8hpM
13.
Toots Thielemans - I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2FudoI3LFY
14.
Toots Thielemans - Manhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2H_hFCjQ0
15.
Toots Thielemans - Sonny Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBdU5AuLhNY
16.
Toots Thielemans - Marionette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-V5Wq2YRqM
17.
Toots Thielemans - Isn't It Romantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_du_h_wJAsQ
18.
Toots Thielemans - Stars Fell On Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsUvxOVEjIM
19.
Toots Thielemans - Diga Diga Doo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GseoEpdzdsE
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Toots Thielemans - Stardust

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The Unforgettables Tv

 Toots Thielemans: Jazz Legend 
1. Bluesette
2. I Loves You Porgy
3. Skylark
4. Love Walked In
5. Isn't It Romantic (Second Version)
6. Stairway to the Stars
7. Stars Fell on Alabama
8. Misty
9. Willow Weep for Me
10. You're Driving Me Crazy
11. Satin Doll
12. Sophisticated Lady
13. Homesick That's All
14. Long Ago and Far Away
15. It's the Talk of the Town
16. Imagination
17. Penthouse Serenade
18. Stranger in Paradise
19. Hot Toddy
20. Sonny Boy
21. Bags Groove 
22. Le Trottoir
23. Don't Blame Me
24. Well Be Together Again
25. 18th Century Ballroom
26. Scotch on the Rocks
27. Falling in Love with Love 
28. I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
29. Can't Help Lovin Dat Man
30. Fundamental Frequency
31. Honeysuckle Rose
32. Marionette
33. On the Alamo
34. You Stepped out of a Dream
35. Manhattan
36. Confirmation
37. It's Only a Paper Moon
38. Indian Nuts
39. Don't Be That Way
40. Talk to Me
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Memória da Música

 Toots Thielemans: ''Verve Jazz Masters''
1. Undecided 0:00
2. Body and Soul 2:35
3. Flirt 5:12
4. Soldier in the Rain 8:00
5. Hummin' 11:12
6. Brown Ballad 19:21
7. You're my Blues Machine 23:45
8. Bluessette 26:53
9. Big Bossa 33:55 
10. Tenor Madness 37:57
11. Nocturne 46:06
12. Vai Passar 49:13
13. Killer Joe 54:27
14. The Peacocks 59:09
15. C to G Jam Blues 1:05:43
16. For my Lady 1:08:42
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 Toots Thielemans - ''Trilogy'' 
1. 00:00:00 Toots Thielemans East of the Sun
2. 00:07:17 Toots Thielemans Don't Blame Me
3. 00:09:46 Toots Thielemans 18th Century Ballroom
4. 00:13:34 Toots Thielemans Soul Station
5. 00:20:39 Toots Thielemans Fundamental Frequency
6. 00:25:35 Toots Thielemans Strutting with Some Barbecue
7. 00:30:07 Toots Thielemans Imagination
8. 00:34:37 Toots Thielemans Isn't It Romantic ?
9. 00:39:56 Toots Thielemans The Nearness of You
10. 00:43:18 Toots Thielemans In a Sentimental Mood
11. 00:46:33 Toots Thielemans You Took Advantage of Me
12. 00:49:15 Toots Thielemans Cool and Easy
13. 00:52:10 Toots Thielemans Body and Easy
14. 00:54:28 Toots Thielemans The Cuckoo in the Clock
15. 00:58:38 Toots Thielemans Tangerine
16. 01:01:16 Toots Thielemans Early Autumn
17. 01:04:59 Toots Thielemans Them There Eyes
18. 01:07:35 Toots Thielemans A Handful of Stars
19. 01:11:03 Toots Thielemans Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
20. 01:14:04 Toots Thielemans Clap Yo Hands
21. 01:16:44 Toots Thielemans You Are My Sunshine
22. 01:22:02 Toots Thielemans Nuages
23. 01:27:24 Toots Thielemans Five O'Clock Whistle
24. 01:31:59 Toots Thielemans Soul
25. 01:36:54 Toots Thielemans Lonesome Road
26. 01:41:14 Toots Thielemans Misty
27. 01:44:10 Toots Thielemans Confirmation
28. 01:50:40 Toots Thielemans Les enfants s'ennuient le dimanche
29. 01:55:32 Toots Thielemans Brother John
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 Toots Thielemans - ''The Soul of Toots Thielemans''

 Side A:
1 YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE 0:00
2 NUAGES 5:17 
3 FIVE O'CLOCK WHISTLE 10:44 

Side B:
1 LONESOME ROAD 15:17
2 MISTY 19:44 
3 CONFIRMATION 22:43 
4 LES ENFANTS S'ENNUIENT LE DIMANCHE 29:15
5 BROTHER JOHN 34:12
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 Toots Thielemans - Bird Of Passage
 (Dinner For Two)
1. 00:00:00 Toots Thielemans Confirmation
2. 00:06:28 Toots Thielemans Five O'Clock Whistle
3. 00:10:59 Toots Thielemans Brother John
4. 00:13:07 Toots Thielemans Les Enfants S'ennuient le Dimanche
5. 00:17:55 Toots Thielemans Lonesome Road
6. 00:22:11 Toots Thielemans Soul
7. 00:27:04 Toots Thielemans You are my Sunshine
8. 00:32:16 Toots Thielemans Nuages
9. 00:37:33 Toots Thielemans Misty
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 Toots Thielemans:Aquarela Do Brasil
1. Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim) 00:00
2. Aquarela Do Brasil (Ary Barroso) 03:12
3. Visao (Antonio Adolfo/Tiberio Gaspar) 06:15
4. Corrida De Jangada (Edu Lobo/Jose Carlos Capinan) 09:09
5. Wilsamba (Roberto Menescal) 11:14
6. Voce (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Boscoli) 13:26
7. Barquinho (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Boscoli) 15:52
8. O Sonho (Egberto Gismondi) 18:38
9. Five For Elis (Toots Thielemans) 20:53
10. Canto De Ossanha (Baden Powell/Vinicius De Moraes) 22:53
11. Honeysuckle Rose (Fats Waller/Andy Razaf) 26:08
12. Volta (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Boscoli) 29:02
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mistérmister668

 Toots Thielemans:The Brasil Project, Vol. 2
01 – Cê 00:00
02 – Chôro Bandido 05:28
03 – Retrato em Branco e Preto 09:07
04 – Obsession 12:23
05 – Travessia 15:55
06 – Flora 19:08
07 – Unconditional Love 23:32
08 – Papel Maché 28:47
09 – O Futebol 31:49
10 – Linda (Você é Linda) 35:24
11 – One Note Samba 39:15
12 – Oceano 42:37
13 – Samba de Orfeu 47:55
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finetunesTV

 Toots Thielemans: ''As a Chameleon''
(Dinner For Two) 
1. 00:00:00 Toots Thielemans Diga Diga Doo
2. 00:04:28 Toots Thielemans Don't Be That Way
3. 00:09:07 Toots Thielemans Stars Fell On Alabama
4. 00:12:20 Toots Thielemans So Rare
5. 00:15:06 Toots Thielemans Scotch On The Rocks
6. 00:17:52 Toots Thielemans Sonny Boy
7. 00:22:12 Toots Thielemans On The Alamo
8. 00:24:31 Toots Thielemans Skylark
9. 00:26:32 Toots Thielemans Cocktails For Two
10. 00:28:45 Toots Thielemans Sophisticated Lady
11. 00:31:45 Toots Thielemans I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
12. 00:34:09 Toots Thielemans I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart


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finetunesTV

 Toots Thielemans:''Atmosphere Outta Sound''
(Dinner For Two) 
1. 00:00:00 Toots Thielemans Fundamental Frequency
2. 00:04:52 Toots Thielemans East of the Sun
3. 00:12:05 Toots Thielemans Dont' blame me
4. 00:14:31 Toots Thielemans Soul Station
5. 00:21:31 Toots Thielemans 18th Century Ballroom
6. 00:25:16 Toots Thielemans Isn't it Romantic
7. 00:30:31 Toots Thielemans Struttin' with some Barbecue
8. 00:35:00 Toots Thielemans Imagination