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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 ...
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.
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 .
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".
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.
Max van Gelder (12 February 1916 – 2 October 2004), professionally known as Max Geldray, was a Dutch jazz harmonica player. Best known for providing musical interludes for the BBC radio comedy programme The Goon Show, he was also credited as being the first harmonica player to embrace the jazz style. Geldray was born in the Netherlands 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]
1968–present. Labels. Rounder. Formerly of. The J. Geils Band. Website. magicdick.com. Richard Salwitz[1] (born May 13, 1945), known as Magic Dick, is an American musician, noted for playing the harmonica for the J. Geils Band. [2] In addition to the harmonica, Salwitz plays the trumpet (the first instrument he learned) [3] and saxophone.