Verve Music Group

In this musical puzzle, all the pieces fit together. There is even a bond with Ruud Jacobs, who produced together with Thielemans many successful Dutch jazz recordings in the Seventies. And arranger Jurre Haanstra is responsible for the music for Baantjer, one of the Netherlands’ most long-running and successful TV detective series, and whose plaintive harmonica opening melody is played by – you guessed it – Toots Thielemans.

The biggest success story on this CD, however, remains the Belgian master himself who, although well into his eighties, is still producing beautiful music, blowing note after note ‘way up high… somewhere over the rainbow’.

- Imme Schade van Westrum