For one of the most unusual sets ever recorded of Thelonious Monk’s music, the jazz and blues harmonica great Randy Weinstein explores seven of Monk’s enduring favorites on HarmoniMonk. Teamed on ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Born in Paris, he began as a guitarist, later switching to the diatonic harmonica, and eventually settling on the chromatic harmonica as his primary instrument. He first began playing the harmonica ...

Jean-Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans, whose unrivalled mastery of the harmonica led to collaborations with jazz luminaries such as Montreal pianist Oscar Peterson and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and whose ...

Adam Glasser has forged his career in jazz by re-interpreting classics from South Africa on his chromatic harmonica, a surprisingly challenging instrument he never expected to take up. “Harmonica can ...

The good news for jazz harmonica players has always been the same: The work doesn't require any heavy lifting. The bad news? There is no work. Fortunately, the chief exponents of the instrument, such ...

The advice Grégoire Maret got while discovering jazz possibilities for the chromatic harmonica was simple and sage: Be yourself. Simple? Obviously. All aspiring musicians are encouraged to develop a ...

Handout photo provided by Espafrika and taken on March 30, 2012 shows British jazz musician, Adam Glasser performing at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. - AFP Photo CAPE TOWN: Adam Glasser ...

At the next concert, Normand Glaude, who is something of a renaissance man in Ottawa’s jazz community, will make an overdue return to his first musical love — the harmonica. Glaude, 48, is arguably ...

Toots Thielemans , who has died aged 94, was a Belgian jazz musician best known for his harmonica and guitar playing and his virtuoso whistling; in a career spanning some 70 years he played with many ...

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 ...