Toots Thielemans & Mike del Ferro Trio | Imagine by John Lennon |

Toots Thielemans & Mike del Ferro Trio | Imagine by John Lennon |
Toots Thielemans plays Imagine by John Lennon on Harmonica with the Mike del Ferro Trio.
Beautiful version of John Lennon's epic composition Imagine recorded at the Baku Jazzfestival in 2002.
►Toots Thielemans 100 - Tribute Concerts - Mike del Ferro Trio and Guests
► Friday April 8 2022 - Groningen - Petite Theatre
► Sunday April 17 2022 - Austerlitz (close to Utrecht) - Beauforthuis
► Sunday April 24 2022 - Amsterdam- Bimhuis
► May 27th 2022 - Brussels
► June 11th Terneuzen
► All concerts in collaboration with Toots’ Management - Veerle Van de Poel
► Link to all details / tickets: bnds.us/scgz7s
► Mike del Ferro Presents: Toots Thielemans 100.
Dutch Pianist Mike del Ferro honors the legendary Toots Thielemans whom he performed with for a period of 10 years, all over the world.
This year marks Toots Thielemans’ 100th anniversary (1922-2016).
Mike will present a program with his arrangements of songs which Toots loved to play, and new repertory in the spirit of Toots.
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► Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 - 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for his chromatic harmonica playing, as well as his guitar, whistling skills, and composing. According to jazz historian Ted Gioia, his most important contribution was in "championing the humble harmonica", which Thielemans made into a "legitimate voice in jazz".[2] He eventually became the "preeminent" jazz harmonica player.[3]
His first professional performances were with Benny Goodman's band when they toured Europe in 1949 and 1950. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1951, becoming a citizen in 1957. From 1953 to 1959 he played with George Shearing, and then led his own groups on tours in the U.S. and Europe. In 1961 he recorded and performed live one of his own compositions, "Bluesette", which featured him playing guitar and whistling. In the 1970s and 1980s, he continued touring and recording, appearing with musicians such as Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Werner, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Mina Mazzini, Elis Regina, Quincy Jones, George Shearing, Natalie Cole, Billy Joel, Paul Simon and Paquito D'Rivera.
Among the film soundtracks that Thielemans recorded are The Pawnbroker (1964), Midnight Cowboy (1969), The Getaway (1972), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Sugarland Express (1974) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). His harmonica theme song for the popular Sesame Street TV show was heard for 40 years. He often performed and recorded with Quincy Jones, who once called him "one of the greatest musicians of our time."[4] In 2009 he was designated a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor for a jazz musician in the United States.
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► Mike del Ferro is a highly sought after International Award Winning Pianist and World Traveller from Amsterdam. To date he performed in 117 Countries. His reputation as a soloist, accompanist, composer and arranger has led to performances and recordings with musicians such as Toots Thielemans, Branford Marsalis, Jack DeJohnette, Randy Brecker, Oscar Castro Neves, Deborah Brown, Erik Truffaz, Jorge Rossy, Scott Hamilton, Richard Galliano, and many others.
► Mike has travelled the world extensively (so far 117 countries), searching for collaborations with musicians from cultures quite different to his own, and the musical results have been eye-opening, building musical bridges between cultures not normally within reach of each other. He has managed to combine elements of the revered canons of Western music interspersed with the audacity of Jazz improvisation, and paying tribute to the ancient structures of Asian, South American and African traditional music.
► Mike goes by Mark Twain's dictum - "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime" ...... his music reflects the array of influences that he has picked up in some of the most exotic places around the world.
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