ne me quitte pas - Toots Thielemans & Fred Hersch

[kittysusca]

Isnt this so beautiful! As a harmonica player I can say that this is pure joy.I am fortunate enough to have met someone who knew this was here.I have been playing harmonica for 40 years.Im 50 now.

[HSECKINGER1]

Fred Hersch understands Toots music. No better tribute could be.

heseck

[Francoisraa]

Mes deux préférés...Le talent frsonnant dans l'océan d'amour n'a plus besoin du vent pour faire des vagues à l'âme. Le ventne s'attrappe pas..

[maidoodesu]

so nice !  ですね.

[papapanda28]

I can't hear it clearly....Anyway I like it very much.... Great!!!

[60pn]

gilles17b-que les Belges sont chauvins! mais J'avoue la belle chanson d'amour par l'un des meilleurs sinon le,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[TheNakeli]

Brel + Toots = proud to be Belgian!

[changer81]

@TheNakeli Thanks, ik dacht dat Toots nederlands was :P In Brussel geboren en in 1954 geëmigreerd naar U.S.A lees ik nu. Fantastisch, kippenvel elke keer <3

[mathizzzamusic]

damn this guy is real good was past away after this song for a few secs thx thx thx for sharing this with us

i'm half belgium myself so it's even more how do you say ... nice :P

[Woutah2dmaX]

88 years old and still making heavenly music... surely one of the greatests of all time.

[sukajazz]

God dont let him die...

[empress812]

I have never heard a harmonica played like that.  This was truly divine!

[ovalie38]

Toots ! Un très grand Monsieur. Un très grand Monsieur que je respecte profondément.

J'aime quelques jazz. Pas tous je dois l'admettre.

J'assume. Mais Toots, c'est vraiment quelqu'un.

J'adore Steve Gadd. Il me semble que Toots a joué avec lui à un moment donné et j'en suis presque sûr. J'aurais vraiment aimé savoir quel est le titre de ce morceau. Merci d'avance.

[alliax]

@ovalie38 Sur l'album Incognito (1982) du groupe Spyro Gyra il y a en effet une musique (nom : Stripes) avec Toots et Steve Gadd qui jouent ensembles:

Saxophone - Jay Beckenstein

Piano, Organ - Richard Tee

Guitar - Steve Love

Slide Guitar - John Tropea

Bass - Marcus Miller

Drums - Steve Gadd

Percussion - Gerardo Velez

Harmonica - Toots Thielman

Guitar Solo - Chet Catallo

[alliax]

@ovalie38 Cherche simplement "stripes spyro gyra" sur youtube et tu trouvera la video (en fait juste une image de la pochette de l'album et la musique)

[witboek]

Toots is good but also Brel

[gilles17b]

Toots Thielemans, Jacques Brel, que de grands Belges

[mear1394]

kist

One of the greatest belges playing a song from one of the other great belges and leaving the pain that comes from this song intact is unbelievable. I was gone for a few seconds when i first heared it

[14monaros14]

nice version! but wrong translation ;) its not "if you go away" its "dont leave me"

[14monaros14]

@jazzbest68 "ne me quitte pas" doesnt mean "if you go away" this is totally wrong ... it means "dont leave me"

therefor this song has other deepth than in english -it is better to translate the song for yourself ;) I know there are english versions they called "if you go away" but it is a wrong translation ;)

[jazzbest68]

Dear 14monaros14, of course "ne me quitte pas" doesn't mean "if you go away" but it's under this tittle that the song is known in the englisch world like "Les Feuilles Mortes" is known as "Autumn Leaves" and not as "Dead Leaves"

[filterfunkable]

@14monaros14 Shades of blue are still blue ;-)

[ElizabethGS]

@14monaros14 I think you have to realize the cadence of the song...the words 'ne-me-qui-tte-pas' fit the phrasing of the tune. 'Don't leave me' or even Do-not-lea-ve-me' doesn't work. So the English version was adapted/changed to 'If you go away' and rewritten to fit the tune and basically an entire new song created to suit the 'feeling' of the song and tune. It's been done before when an exact translation simply wouldn't sound 'right'. I'm assuming (hoping) Jacques Brel gave his approval?

[BigBeautifulBabe]

In Memory of Nina Simone!

[MRMLINGIE]

In Memory of Jacques Brel

[bursk89]

i need this song's harmonica tabs

[ElizabethGS]

@bursk89 I believe Toots plays a 14 hole instrument. I only have a 12 hole in front of me. On a 12 his first note is 4 draw. 4-4-(slide in 4-)4-4-; 4-4-(slide in4-)4-4-;3-3-4-3-3-;3-3-4-3-3­-, you should be able to figure out most of the rest of it from that...(it's how I just did). :) Just sit here with your instrument and keep replaying the video...play along with him. Let your ears tell you where the notes are. It's a great ear-training exercise.

[JazzAtmosphere]

It's very nice!!!

[Malikabylou]

inattendue et toujours belle

[Montecastel]

Trop belle...

[alhajem]

niiiiiiice

[Tsutsomu]

Wonderfull !!

Thanks for sharing with us .

Steph.

[saradamsmc]

Awesome and really beautiful.

[BumSlave]

Simply beautiful...