For one of the most unusual sets ever recorded of Thelonious Monk’s music, the jazz and blues harmonica great Randy Weinstein explores seven of Monk’s enduring favorites on HarmoniMonk. Teamed on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This harmonica was made by Gretsch in ...

Howard Levy's house in Evanston, Ill., is filled with musical instruments: ocarinas, keyboards, percussion and especially harmonicas. When he was just a teenager, Levy took a regular dime-store ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This harmonica was made by G.P. Regan ...

The story behind Israel's Adler Trio and the harmonica started with serendipity. In 1960, when Chaim Adler went to a musical instrument shop in Haifa to buy one of his sons a chromatic harmonica, ...

Most nights, you can walk into a blues club and find a harmonica player blowing their heart out onstage. The wailing, honking sound associated with Western movies and juke joints is what many harp ...

When the blues moved from the delta to Saint Louis, Memphis and Chicago – from acoustic to electric – the harmonica made the move as well. And keeping to its low-budget practical roots, the means of ...

Brian Byrnes, who ran a construction business and raised a family in Marin before focusing on music, makes his debut as a band leader on this EP with his jazz trio. Byrnes wrote two of the record’s ...

A caution to Monkophiles of every variety: This is not your grandparents' Thelonious Monk, much less Charlie Rouse's or anyone else. Monk on a chromatic harmonica? Well, keep an open mind and try it.

When it comes to music, you only need one instrument. Members of the Rubber Capital Harmonica Club believe that. In fact, they are so devoted to the music of that one instrument that have structured ...