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Jazz harmonica player Charles Leighton In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others. He first heard the faster bebop style of jazz from records by Parker and Dizzy Gillespie after they had reached Belgium after the war. They became his musical "prophets". As his small collection of jazz records grew, the music of Benny Goodman ...
Jazz harmonica players by nationality (1 C) Pages in category "Jazz harmonica players" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Frédéric Yonnet (born 30 April 1973) is a French musician, producer and recording artist who is best known for his use of the harmonica as a lead in jazz, R&B, funk, gospel and hip-hop influenced music. His ability to play chromatic scales on a diatonic harmonica gives him access to twice as many notes as the instrument is designed to deliver.
Labels. Kingsnake Records, Alligator Records, Arista Records, Tulsa Blues Project Records. James Keys Markham (March 16, 1941 – September 21, 2018) was an American harmonica player and singer. Inducted into both the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, he is considered a pioneer of the "Tulsa sound".
Larry Adler. Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 [1] – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player and film composer. Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin. During his later career, he collaborated with Sting, Elton John and ...
Years active. 1970s–present. Labels. Balkan Samba. Website. levyland.com. Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American musician. A keyboardist and virtuoso harmonica player, he "has been realistically presented as one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the twentieth century." [1]
This is a list of musicians that are notable for their harmonica playing skills. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Galison was born and raised in New York City. [1] As a child, he started to study piano, but at the age of eight he decided to switch to guitar, having been inspired by the Beatles. [1] He developed a love of jazz in high school and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. [1] He decided to change to the harmonica because "I was one of a ...