With guest host Jane Clayson. Harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy tears it up with us. From Bach to the blues. Harmonica master Howard Levy, in a photo dated February 2012. (Courtesy the Artist) Oh, you ...

“Write this down: Blow 3, blow 4, draw 3, blow 3,” Phil Kaplan said to his new class of Newton harmonica students. Kaplan told the class he pulled the riff from “Mannish Boy,” the popular 1955 Muddy ...

As the founder and blues-drenched harmonica master of the King Biscuit Blues Band for 20 years, Ken Schoppmeyer was known as a perfectionist. If a band member played a sour note, he’d sternly, and not ...

Harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite believes the blues is more than just 12 bars and three chords, and his boundary-pushing 2004 disc, “Sanctuary,” splendidly proves the point. The most recent of the ...

Lynn Massa may forget a lot of things, but he never forgets how to play the harmonica. “I have to check to make sure my head’s still screwed on sometimes,” he joked, “but I can always play a tune.” ...