Re: [Harp-L] Toota at his most be-boppiest?

[richard perkins <judoblues2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure if it's Bebop exactly, but if you've missed it. He did a pretty 
hard jazz cd/album with Bill Evans,I think was called infinity. From what I have 
heard in the 50's he mostly worked with George Shearing




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From: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, May 18, 2013 8:53:45 AM
Subject: [Harp-L] Toota at his most be-boppiest?

With Spotify and all that jazz it´s become interesting to search through some 
artists recorded output. I´m now trying to find something from Toots T when he 
played more radical bebop -- and that, I guess, would be in the 50´s? 


  He´s self-described (interview) as at some point in his younger days a 
confirmed Charlie Parker epigon (legions of them of course) but I have a bit of 
a hard time finding stuff with that orientation from him.
  He is in no way unknown to me (also a very familiar presence in Swedish 
television back in the day)-- but what I own is mostly from the 60´s and 70´s. 
(Parenthetically, I almost never play the chromatic but whenever I´m out playing 
diatonic there´s always some bozoo coming up to me and saying, "Hey Toots 
Thielemans ...!" and that is a compliment, so i don´t correct them, but it´s 
only based on the fact, as far as I can see, that I use all three octaves on the 
harp -- and that Toots is a household name here, not sure if it´s the same in 
the US?)
/Martin