This duo tribute to the great Toots Thielemans features Toots’s heir apparent on the harmonica, Grégoire Maret, and Toots’s longtime pianist and Musical Director Kenny Werner.  

As those who followed Toots’s long career know, he wanted to play with musicians who had their own identities and who challenged him to continue to grow musically until the end. Toots took a special interest in Grégoire because Grégoire had his own sound and style, and while influenced by Toots, never sought to copy him. Accordingly, his and Kenny’s tribute will feature songs Toots loved to play, including his standard Bluesette, of course, but in their own way, with new harmonies, rhythms, and arrangements. As Grégoire puts it, they will “find new places where his spirit is truly honored but his music is being played through a new prism.”