Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

Neil Warren

Notice: new episodes are currently on hold. The Happy Hour Harmonica podcast brings profiles of some of the top harmonica players and technicians today. The podcast is sponsored by Seydel harmonicas. Check out their great range of products at www.seydel1847.com.If you would like to make a voluntary contribution to help keep the podcast running then please use this link: https://paypal.me/harmonicahappyhour. Visit the main podcast webpage at: https://www.harmonicahappyhour.com/ Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast@gmail.com

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Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

Episodes (150)

Dec 27, 2025 Toots Thielemans retrospective
Dec 20, 2025 The Ten Minute Question: part 3
Dec 6, 2025 Hank Shreve interview

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

Dec 27, 2025
2½ hours
63 MB

Hermine Duerloo, Laurent Maur and Alexandre Piret join me on episode 150, for a retrospective on the great Toots Thielemans. Toots was born in 1922 to humble beginnings, in Brussels, Belgium, where his parents ran a cafe. His first instrument was an accordion, which he started playing at age three and showed great promise. He took up guitar and the chromatic harmonica around the age of sixteen. He then went on to tour Europe with Benny Goodman in 1950 before moving to the US in 1951 where landed a seat in the George Shearing Quintet, mainly as a guitar player, but a...

Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast

Toots Thielemans retrospective

Neil Warren

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