Toots Thielemans | en

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (Brussels, Belgium, April 29, 1922 - August 22, 2016), known as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was known for his harmonica playing, as well as his guitar and whistling skills. A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette," where he used whistling and guitar in unison. He worked both as a bandleader and as a sideman, including many projects with composer/arranger Quincy Jones. He performed on many film soundtracks, such as Midnight Cowboy, Cinderella Liberty, Jean de Florette, The Sugarland Express, The Yakuza, Turkish Delight, the 1972 version of The Getaway, French...

Jamaican ska vocal group The Maytals became a reggae band in 1971, renamed Toots and The Maytals with Frederick "Toots" Hibbert as front figure. The band won a 2005 Grammy award for the album True Love. Funky Kingston in early 70s is on Rolling Stone's list The Greatest Albums of All Time. The bass line in "54-46" is one of the most covered in pop music. Songs such as "Monkey Man", "Pressure Drop", "Bam Bam", among others, made them favorites for the early skinhead movement of white working-class youth in UK. Toots and The Maytals are from Kingston, Jamaica. It...

Toots Hibbert (born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, 10 December 1945, May Pen, Parish of Clarendon, Jamaica) is a ska and roots reggae singer and leader of the reggae band Toots and the Maytals. As the youngest of seven children, he grew up singing gospel music in a church choir, but went to Kingston when he was a teenager in the early 1960s. In Kingston he met Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias, and they formed The Maytals. The Maytals became one of the most popular vocal groups in Jamaica in the 1960s, recording with producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Byron Lee and...

Marcel Thielemans (Schaerbeek, May 13th 1912 - Hilversum, May 15th 2003) was a noted Flemish singer and trombonist. In 1933 as a trombonist he joined the Dutch jazz band The Ramblers led by Theo Uden Masman. He swiftly took on some of the vocals and recorded dozens of songs made ​​popular by the French chanson genre. He remained with the The Ramblers until 1964 when Theo Uden Masman and the band's sponsor and broadcaster since 1933, VARA, fell out but rejoined in 1974 under Jack Bulterman's leadership when The Ramblers reconvened. After the death of Bulterman in 1977, he led...

A foot stompin', horn honkin', go-go dancing, psychedelic freak-out. Five members on record, nine on stage. The Toots' live shows are a haphazard spectacle filled with sweat, glitter and trumpets. A garage, country, big band bonanza whose songs tell ol' tales of rural Australian misfits. .