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Larry Adler's Harmonica
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The late Toots Thielemans was one of the first chromatic harmonica players to play swing and bop on the instrument. And no one could touch Toots or even sound like him. But he wasn't the first harmonica star. That title belong to Larry Adler, who died in 2001. Born in Baltimore, he taught himself to play before running away to New York, where as a kid he got a job in vaudeville. Adler was so proficient on the harmonica that ...
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