Albert “Tootie” Heath tells such vivid stories in his drum playing that a spoiler alert should be required to discuss his solos in print. His is a melodic style, using the toms and snare to ...

Albert "Tootie" Heath performs in a trio with Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) and Ben Street (Danilo Perez Trio), followed by Wilson's Arts & Crafts... Tootie Heath And Matt Wilson On JazzSet Tootie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Albert “Tootie” Heath will bring his Tootie Heath Trio to UNCW's Kenan Auditorium on June 10. Like a brilliantly executed jazz ...

American jazz drummer known as a refined, quietly sparkling stylist who teamed up with his siblings to form the Heath Brothers The drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath, who has died aged 88, was a member of ...

The list of jazz legends that 82-year-old drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath has gigged with over six decades is extensive. Early on in his career, Heath, younger brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and ...

Albert “Tootie” Heath, a self-taught jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and Nina Simone and later teamed with his brothers on several recordings, died on April 3. He was 88. Heath died at a ...

Santa Fe’s Albert “Tootie” Heath hasn’t played the drums for a live audience since March. It’s the longest hiatus he’s had in 63 years of performing with legendary jazz musicians in venues all across ...

It is with heavy heart that I say goodbye to jazz drumming legend and my dear friend, Albert “Tootie” Heath, as he left us on his final journey to reunite once again with the iconic Heath Brothers, ...

“You just missed the morning ritual,” says Albert “Tootie” Heath, pointing to the telephone wires running like thick veins over his Altadena home. The jazz drummer is dressed in a pair of blue ...

Albert "Tootie" Heath is one of the most accomplished jazz drummers of the past 60 years. The 79-year-old has played with everyone from John Coltrane to Ethan Iverson, the piano player for The Bad ...

Like a brilliantly executed jazz solo that riffs and then resolves, history will come full circle June 10 when the drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath, a world-renowned musician with deep roots in ...

Tootie Heath says the drummer's responsibility is to be happy. There's no better believer in the happiness ethic than Matt Wilson — and we're happy, too, grooving first to Heath, then Wilson, in ...