Toots Thielemans

• 84 TRACKS ON 4 CD-BOX SET

A huge collection of work from the initial years in the long musical career of Toots Thielemans – a musician who really helped shape the sound of jazz on a few different instruments, and who also made strong contribution to the world of soul and soundtracks over the years too!

The package features eight full albums by Toots – all brimming over with color and lyrical magic – with Thielemans famously crafting these amazing lines on harmonica – bringing the instrument into jazz territory that no others had touched – and often playing guitar as well, depending on the record.

The settings here vary nicely, as the records are from both European and US sources, each of which have a different setting – including a date with backings by Kurd Edelhagen on the record Road To Romance, small combo European sounds on the 1961 record Toots, work with the Ray Bryant trio on The Soul Of Toots Thielmans, a cool French group on Try A Little Tenderness, a larger US orchestra on Time Out For Toots, a small jazz combo with Pepper Adams on Man Bites Harmonica, Toots' group with organ from Billy Desmedt on Toot's Quartet, and a larger group on The Sound Of Toots Thielmans

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• 01. THAT’S A PLENTY
• 02. HARMONICA RAG
• 03. TOOT’S BLUES
• 04. RED DEVIL BOOGIE
• 05. AT THE DARKTOWN STRUTTERS BALL
• 06. HAPPY GO LAZY
• 07. MICHIGAN
• 08. HIGH SCHOOL CADETS MARCH
• 09. ON THE ALAMO
• 10. DON’T BE THAT WAY
• 11. I’M PUTTING ALL MY EGGS IN ONE BASKET
• 12. SOPHISTICATED LADY
• 13. SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS
• 14. I LET A SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART
• 15. STARS FELL ON ALABAMA
• 16. DIGA DIGA DOO
• 17. SO RARE
• 18. SKYLARK
• 19. SONNY BOY
• 20. COCKTAILS FOR TWO

• CD TWO
• 01. EAST OF THE SUN
• 02. DON’T BLAME ME
• 03. 18TH CENTURY BALLROOM
• 04. SOUL STATION
• 05. FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY
• 06. STRUTTING WITH SOME BARBECUE
• 07. IMAGINATION
• 08. ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
• 09. THE NEARNESS OF YOU
• 10. IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
• 11. YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME
• 12. COOL AND EASY
• 13. BODY AND SOUL
• 14. THE CUCKOO IN THE CLOCK
• 15. TANGERINE
• 16. EARLY AUTUMN
• 17. THEM THERE EYES
• 18. A HANDFUL OF STARS
• 19. CAN’T HELP LOVIN’ DAT MAN
• 20. CLAP YO’ HANDS

• CD THREE
• 01. YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE
• 02. NUAGES
• 03. FIVE O’CLOCK WHISTLE
• 04. SOUL
• 05. LONESOME ROAD
• 06. MISTY
• 07. CONFIRMATION
• 08. LES ENFANTS S’ENNUIENT LE DIMANCHE
• 09. BROTHER JOHN
• 10. WINTER IN MADRID
• 11. WILLOW WEEP FOR ME
• 12. SATIN DOLL
• 13. BAG’S GROOVE
• 14. WE’LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN
• 15. HOT TODDY
• 16. TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
• 17. TALK TO ME
• 18. LE TROTTOIR
• 19. HONEYSUCKLE ROSE
• 20. FLIRT

• CD FOUR
• 01. ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
• 02. HOMESICK THAT’S ALL
• 03. PENTHOUSE SERENADE
• 04. A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY
• 05. THIS IS ALWAYS
• 06. STRANGER IN PARADISE
• 07. STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
• 08. LOVE WALKED IN
• 09. LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
• 10. I LOVES YOU, PORGY
• 11. YOU STEPPED OUT OF A DREAM
• 12. YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY
• 13. HI HO - HI HO
• 14. SUMMERTIME
• 15. BACK BAY SHUFFLE
• 16. VEM KAN SEGLA FÖRUTAN VIND
• 17. SECRET LOVE
• 18. THE BLUES AND I
• 19. FJÄRLIN VINGAD SYNS PÅ HAGA
• 20. DELAUNAY´S DILEMMA
• 21. THE BLACKSMITH BLUES
• 22. BLUE AND YELLOW
• 23. CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA
• 24. WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK