Google is honoring Toots Thielemans, the legendary jazz harmonica player whose most widely known contribution is to the Sesame Street theme song. Toots Thielemans was born on April 29, 1922, in ...

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian harmonica player Toots Thielemans, whose illustrious career included playing with jazz greats like Miles Davis and whose solos have figured on numerous film scores, has died.

Jean-Baptiste Frederic Isidore Thielemans, known affectionately as “Toots”, died in his sleep in a Brussels hospital early on Monday. He was 94. Born in 1922 in the working-class Marolles district of ...

Peering at a shiny object through a shop window. In the late 1930s, a teenaged Jean Baptiste Thielemans found himself doing that one day during a school field trip in his native Belgium. And that’s ...

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 ...

Like the oxygen he breathes in and blows out, "Toots" Thielemans is all around us. Oh, not everyone might know that the Belgian-born harmonica great toured with Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman.

At the end of his life, tenor sax legend Stan Getz made a point of showcasing Kenny Barron in a duo that helped make him one of jazz’s most visible pianists. Harmonica master Toots Thielemans took a ...

The Belgian-American musician, also known for his guitar playing and whistling, performed with the stars of postwar jazz and was widely heard on... Toots Thielemans, Jazz Harmonica Baron, Dies At 94 ...

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 ...

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 ...