is a list of five great blues-harmonica players who have applied their skills and their instrument to jazz songs. Charlie Musselwhite was raised on blues music. Born in Mississippi in 1944 to a ...

The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug ... and that really sparked my interest in the music, especially once I became exposed to the very large history ...

James Cotton, who learned to play the harmonica as a child in the Mississippi Delta and went on to be a major figure in blues music as a sideman to Muddy Waters and as a Grammy Award-winning solo ...

First as half of the duo Cephas and Wiggins and later on his own, he was one of the best-known musicians playing the style known as the Piedmont blues. By Clay Risen Phil Wiggins, a harmonica ...