Recommended Toots albums anyone?

[andreimatorin]

Toots Thielemans was at Lietchfield Jazz Festival where i heard him play and he gave the summer music school a master class. I got a hold of a couple of his songs but i want more. Anybody have any particular cd's they would recommend of his?

thx!

[jazzcritic]

Fortunately, Toots Thielemans has recorded frequently during the CD era. Some of his best work can be found on: Don Not Leave Me (Stash); Man Bites Harmonica (OJC-Fantasy), Live in the Netherlands (OJC); Footprints (Emarcy); Only Trust Your Heart (Concord); and Images (Candid). There are many other titles also worth investigating.

Two very important dates as a sideman should be acquired as well: Oscar Peterson: Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival (Pablo);
and Marc Johnson: 2X4 (JMT).

He's also a blast to interview and will play harmonica over the phone for you!

[Lazy Lew]

Brasil Project part 1 - with Brasil's greatest musicians.
East Coast West Coast - with ao Robben Ford

are my two favorites

[jazzdude]

The two Brasil Project discs, especially disc 2. Besides great harmonic playing they are also great introductions to some of the best of Brazillian pop and jazz. In particular, Caetano Veloso, Djavan, Ivan Lins and Joao Bosco.

[PiousBionicus]

Funky Kingston by Toots and the Maytals!! Although you may be talking about a different Toots...

[andreimatorin]

ya, it sounds like a very different toots! i'm not sure this toots ever played/recorded funk...:D

[Lazy Lew]

Have you seen the film with Dustin Hofman....
Tootsie?
There are more Tootses indeed. Thousands of Tutsis in Central Africa, too.
Toots Thielemans was nicknamed after another jazzmusician.
Was it Toots Cammaro or something like that?

[Alino]

Toots Thielemans was at Lietchfield Jazz Festival where i heard him play and he gave the summer music school a master class. I got a hold of a couple of his songs but i want more. Anybody have any particular cd's they would recommend of his?

thx!


Very best Toots Thielemans, according to me: Bill Evans' Fantasy album "Affinity" (1978); his own "Images", Choice cd (1974) with Joanne Brakeen and Cecil McBee; "Only Trust Your Heart", Concord 1988 and -live- "Ne Me Quitte Pas", Camden 1999 with Fred Hersh, Joey Baron, Marc Johnson or Harvie Shwartz.
This last wonderful group has a dvd too, "Toots Thielemans Live From new Orleans" Leisure Jazz 2004.

[Lonson]

The two Brasil Project discs, especially disc 2. Besides great harmonic playing they are also great introductions to some of the best of Brazillian pop and jazz. In particular, Caetano Veloso, Djavan, Ivan Lins and Joao Bosco.
There was a recent JazzSet broadcast of a live Brazil project led by Toots that is outstanding.

[Hot Ptah]

"Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux", 1975, originally released on Pablo. Toots' solo on the first song is amazing. The group also includes Milt Jackson and Joe Pass.

[walkin]

I`ll throw in another vote for Man Bites Harmonica:)

[Lonson]

His entry in the Jazz in Paris series is a very very good one.

[jlhoots]

I`ll throw in another vote for Man Bites Harmonica:)

That's the one I like best.

[clave]

I don't have this, but I know people who do, and they swear by it -

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000471V.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I'm not sure if he is still actively recording with Brazilian musicians, but he's done some great guest spots over the past couple of years.

My mom is really fond of this one -

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000046JO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[ThomasRaden]

There was a recent JazzSet broadcast of a live Brazil project led by Toots that is outstanding.

Swedish as I am I of course recommend the Aquarela album, the hot latin jazz album
recorded a cold and snowy winter in Stockholm in 1969.
On here you find the famous Wave track.

[rhinozoot]

SUMMERTIME is a live recording lead by mongo santamaria with his band montreaux jazz festival early 1980's with dizzy and toots as special guests

pure latin heat,everyone including toots very exciting,title track is a knockout

i also like toots' BRAZIL PROJECT 2

[rhinozoot]

great big band recording pablo/fantasy,now concord label