This is Society for Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica. Again, these organizations! We've got long names!" he ...

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, has died. He… ...

Thielemans presents a listener with a unique challenge: With whom do you compare him? While a handful of jazz harmonica players have followed since the Belgian wizard brought his remarkable gifts ...

Jazz Hendrik Meurkens with Misha Tsiganov, “Junity: Duo and Quartet” (HMS). A bedeviling question, if you let it be: the great blues harmonica players – the Sonny Terrys and Little ...

About 500 harmonica players have descended onto the San Antonio River Walk for a convention with a single purpose: preserve and promote the fading use of harmonica in popular music.

Gregory Golub ’s latest composition, Idiom for Harmonica and Piano," offers a fresh reimagining the jazz concept of harmonic exploration. While the pairing of harmonica and piano is not entirely ...

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.

So why is it that all the great jazz harmonica players – and I do mean all – have always been European? The greatest, of course, was the sublime Belgian Toots Thielmans.