Person
Toots Thielemans
Albums
162
Members
6
Active
1922–2016
Origin
Belgium
Biography
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (born 29 April 1922, Brussels, Belgium), known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century.
He has worked as a bandleader (scoring an international hit in the 1960s with his song "Bluesette"), as a sideman (notably on many projects with composer/arranger Quincy Jones), and has appeared on dozens of film soundtracks. In 2009 he became NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States.
He may be best-known to some of the American public as the performer whistling the melody in commercials for Old Spice cologne.
Discography
Just Friends
My Cherie Amour
Week-end Portes Ouvertes / Bluesette
Live
Live
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Ne Me Quitte Pas / Do Not Leave Me
Toots & Svend
Ballade Pour Damien / Ballade Voor Damiaan 1889-1989
I Medici Solisti
Only Trust Your Heart
Toots Thielmans in Tokyo
Footprints
Footprints
Man Bites Harmonica!
Rosinha de Valença & Flavio Faria
The Sound of Toots Thielemans
Boys: Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack
Fly to L.A.
For My Lady
For My Lady
Toots Thielemans
Compact Jazz: Toots Thielemans
Hamonica Jazz
Martial Solal, Toots Thielemans
Red Square Blue: Jazz Impressions of Russian Composers
The Brasil Project
The Brasil Project
Airegin
Hålligång
The Brasil Project, Vol. 2
The Brasil Project, Volume II
Bluesette
Collage
East Coast West Coast
Ozio
Bringing it Together
Concerto Pour Harmonica
Toots in Sweden
Toots Thielemans 1955-1957
Your Precious Love
Verve Jazz Masters 59
TOOTS 75 The Birthday Album
Accentuate the Positive
Chez Toots
Penthouse Serenade
Penthouse Serenade
The Live Takes
The Live Takes, Volume 1
Toots!
Bluesette For Ever
Jazz in Paris: Blues pour Flirter
The Best of Toots Thielemans
The Best Of Toots Thielemans
The Very Best Of (Hard to Say Goodbye)
Bluesette
Quiet Evenings
Toots Thielemans
Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner
Toots Thielemans & Kenny Werner
Credits
Truth, Liberty & Soul - Live in NYC: The Complete 1982 NPR Jazz Alive! Recording
The Sesjun Radio Shows
Rejoice
The Essential Jaco Pastorius
The Word Is Out!
Ease Your Mind
When I See You
Lumpy Jazz
Music From the Motion Picture: Between a Smile and a Tear (A Tribute to Jazzclub Montmartre in Copenhagen)
Chez Toots
Hard Rain
Talkin' Verve: Roots of Acid Jazz
Jazziza
Live
Louder Than Words
In From the Storm
Circo Beat
Rhapsody II
Secret Story
This Is My Life
You Won’t Forget Me
Bim Bim
Garden City
Gula Matari
Monica Z
Instincts
Only Trust Your Heart
Svingin' with Svend
Shu•bi•dua 12
Viktor Lazlo
Illusions
Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources: Bande originale des films
Just Friends
The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
The King of Swing
Apple Dimple
Sesamstraat Is Jarig
The Silver Collection
Valotte
An Innocent Man
Passionfruit
Incognito
Invitation
Live in the Netherlands
Three's a Charm
Digital at Montreux, 1980
Ella Abraça Jobim: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Song Book
Songs of the Beatles
“The Dude”
Word of Mouth
Collage
Live at Montreux Festival
Live At The Northsea Jazz Festival, The Hague, Holland, 1980
Da bist du ja
Weekend
Zio Tom
Affinity
The Wiz
Whirlwind
Galos de briga