Jean-Jacques Milteau is a French blues

Blues

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 harmonica

Harmonica

The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

 player, singer, and songwriter.

Career

Milteau became interested in the harmonica when he first heard folk and rock music (such as Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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 and The Rolling Stones

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) in the 1960s. He played with French singers like Yves Montand

Yves Montand

-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...

, Eddy Mitchell

Eddy Mitchell

Eddy Mitchell is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires , taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine...

, Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...

, Maxime Le Forestier

Maxime Le Forestier

Maxime Le Forestier is a French singer.He was born in Paris to an English father and a French mother who had lived in England. He had two older sisters, Anne and Catherine....

, Barbara, and Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...

 in various styles, from blues to jazz.
In 1989, he recorded his first solo album, Blues Harp, and toured the world with Manu Galvin at the guitar and with guest musicians like Mighty Mo Rodgers and Demi Evans

Demi Evans

Demi Evans is an American vocalist and lyricist from Dallas, Texas, who is heavily marketed in Western Europe and especially France as a famous blues singer, although she is relatively unknown in the US...

.
He has authored methods for learning the harmonica

Awards

• 2001 : best blues album Memphis
  Memphis, Tennessee
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   (French Victoire de la musique)

Selected discography

• 1983: Just Kiddin with Mauro Serri
• 1989: Blues Harp
• 1991: Explorer
• 1992: Le grand blues band et J.J. Milteau
• 1993: Live
• 1995: Routes
• 1996: Merci d'être venus
• 1998: Blues live
• 1999: Bastille blues
• 2000: Honky Tonk blues (live)
• 2001: Memphis with Little Milton
  Little Milton
  James Milton Campbell, Jr. , better known as Little Milton, was an American electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul singer and guitarist, best known for his hit records "Grits Ain't Groceries" and "We're Gonna Make It."-Biography:Milton was born James Milton Campbell, Jr., in the Mississippi...
  
   and Mighty Sam McClain
  Mighty Sam McClain
  Mighty Sam McClain is an American Grammy nominated soul blues singer and songwriter.-Life and career:As a five year old, he began singing in his mother's Gospel Church...
  
  
• 2003: Blue 3rd with Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
  , Terry Callier
  Terry Callier
  Terrence O. Callier, known as Terry Callier is an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter.-Life and career:...
  
  , N’Dambi, Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (jazz musician)
  Howard Lewis Johnson in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also plays the bass clarinet, trumpet and other reed instruments....
  
  …
• 2006: Fragile
• 2007: Live, hot n'blues (Universal) with Demi Evans
  Demi Evans
  Demi Evans is an American vocalist and lyricist from Dallas, Texas, who is heavily marketed in Western Europe and especially France as a famous blues singer, although she is relatively unknown in the US...
  
  and Andrew Jones
• 2008: Soul Conversation with Michael Robinson and Ron Smyth

External links

• Milteau's official website
• See on "La Restauration Audio" The "Soul Conversation" album with musicals samples and an exclusive interview (2002) : JJ Milteau tell the harmonica's story to Jean Pierre Bameulle