{"id":7766,"date":"2016-08-22T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2016-08-23T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:42:39","slug":"monday-recommendation-toots-thielemans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/08\/monday-recommendation-toots-thielemans\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Toots Thielemans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toots Thielemans<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yesterday-Today-Toots-Thielemans\/dp\/B006UO3NPE\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Yesterday &amp; Today<\/em><\/a> (Out Of The Blue) <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TT-Yesterday-Today.jpg\" alt=\"TT Yesterday &amp; Today\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TT-Yesterday-Today.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TT-Yesterday-Today-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/TT-Yesterday-Today-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The loss today of the harmonica virtuoso makes this survey of his career poignant and rewarding. Two CDs with thirty-eight tracks, most previously unreleased, follow Thielemans from 1946, when he was a 23-year-old guitarist with a Belgian swing band, to a 2001 harmonica performance of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What A Wonderful World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with pianist Kenny Werner. In the late 1940s and early \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc50s, when many European musicians were struggling with the style, Thielemans had a firm grasp of bebop. Playing through the decades with George Shearing, Hank Jones, J.J. Johnson, Elis Regina, Mulgrew Miller, Shirley Horn and a few dozen others, Thielemans is astonishing on both instruments, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his harmonica that brings grins of joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toots Thielemans, Yesterday &amp; Today (Out Of The Blue) The loss today of the harmonica virtuoso makes this survey of his career poignant and rewarding. Two CDs with thirty-eight tracks, most previously unreleased, follow Thielemans from 1946, when he was a 23-year-old guitarist with a Belgian swing band, to a 2001 harmonica performance of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}