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 ...

Howard Levy’s played the harmonica for almost 50 years. He’s really the first to turn the diatonic harmonica into a jazz instrument. And yet, he’s still trying to figure it out. He hears John Popper, ...

Jazz harmonica virtuosos are not exactly in abundance, which should make Chicagoans feel fortunate that one of the most revered has been based here for decades. Even so, Howard Levy continues to ...

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ... Telarc Blues culls their considerable holdings to provide a wholly satisfying collection of contemporary blues harmonica by contemporary and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Mixing jazz and blues demands a delicate balance between preserving live energy and achieving a polished, listener-ready sound. Engineers must respect the genre’s dynamics, acoustic space, and ...

Sonny Clark could play 50 bars of continuous eighth notes and I wouldn't lose interest. That's why he's so important to me. If I were to start playing some other instrument besides harmonica and vibes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...