TOOTS THIELEMANS feat. OSCAR CASTRO-NEVES & KENNY WERNER at Scullers Jazz Club
Scullers Jazz Club at the DoubleTree Hotels & Guest Suites
Details:
Friday-Saturday, March 12-13, 2010
Show: $30
Dinner & Show: $68
Showtimes: 8pm & 10pm
TOOTS THIELEMANS is the greatest living virtuoso (and perennial winner of Downbeat's Readers and Critics Polls alike) on his "Miscellaneous Instrument", the harmonica. Toots was named a 2009 American Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, and his moving rendition of Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World,' stole the show at the Awards ceremony at Lincoln Center in October 2008.
With a career that goes back to World War II, Toots has played with everyone from Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker, to Paul Simon and Jaco Pastorius. His own 1962 hit "Bluesette" is still one of the seminal recordings in jazz in the 20th century. At his 80th Birthday week in 2002 at the Blue Note in NYC, Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder stopped by to sit in, not surprising, since Toots is revered by musical giants both young and old.
Everyone has heard Toots, if not live or on record, then on the soundtrack of such movies as Midnight Cowboy, or playing the Sesame Street Theme, or whistling on that famous Old Spice commercial. Millions saw him on a Today Show feature in spring 2005, and 2,700 more saw him in person at The Magic of Toots, a sold-out Carnegie Hall tribute in March 2006. No less an authority than Quincy Jones says of Toots, "he ranks with the best that jazz has ever produced."