In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

Howard Levy’s played the harmonica for almost 50 years. He’s really the first to turn the diatonic harmonica into a jazz instrument. And yet, he’s still trying to figure it out. He hears John Popper, ...

Handout photo provided by Espafrika and taken on March 30, 2012 shows British jazz musician, Adam Glasser performing at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. - AFP Photo CAPE TOWN: Adam Glasser ...

Jazz harmonica virtuosos are not exactly in abundance, which should make Chicagoans feel fortunate that one of the most revered has been based here for decades. Even so, Howard Levy continues to ...

Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the harmonica has long been the perfect instrument for a nation on the move. Its popularity has waxed and waned, and it's ...

Adam Glasser has forged his career in jazz by ­re-interpreting classics from his native South Africa on his chromatic harmonica, a surprisingly challenging instrument he never expected to take up.

Jazz: On Friday, harmonica virtuoso and composer Corky Siegel will bring his “Chamber Blues” — an elegant merger of jazz, blues and classical idioms — to Governors State University in University Park.

Adam Glasser has forged his career in jazz by re-interpreting classics from South Africa on his chromatic harmonica, a surprisingly challenging instrument he never expected to take up. “Harmonica can ...

Jerry Portnoy, one of America's leading blues harp master players for over 30 years, has toured with Muddy Waters and shared the international stage with Eric Clapton. Now he has finally released his ...

Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans, the Belgian-American musician who cut a singular path as a jazz harmonica player, died in his sleep Monday in his hometown of Brussels. He was 94. He began his ...

Toots Thielemans, a jazz harmonica player, guitarist and whistler whose 1961 composition “Bluesette” became a jazz standard, has died, the Associated Press reported Monday. He was 94. Belgian ...