The Heath brothers -- bassist Percy, saxophonist Jimmy and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath -- have made an indelible mark on the history of jazz. Percy, the oldest sibling, was a key member of the ...

Bassist Percy Heath was the Modern Jazz Quartet’s secret weapon, perhaps the most subtle member of an outfit known for its hip delicacy. An ideal rhythm section partner, and the last surviving member ...

Percy Heath, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet for more than 40 years, died April 28 of bone cancer in Southampton, New York. He was 81. Heath was the last surviving member of the quartet he helped ...

The Heath Brothers have been playing jazz -- and playing it at such a masterful level -- for so long that just the sight of them gathering onstage is sufficient reason to celebrate. But Saturday night ...

Percy Heath, 81, the bassist who for more than 40 years provided the underpinnings for the Modern Jazz Quartet, died April 28 of bone cancer at a hospital in Southampton, N.Y. Mr. Heath was the last ...

It’s an encouraging sign for all octogenarians when one of their own, a man who has a musical career that spans more than six decades, finally releases an album under his own name at the age of eighty ...

Odd interpretations from Stolen Shack; Folk singer/songwriter Adrienne Young; A new retrospective from The Who; Neo-psychedelia from Circulatory System; Solo work ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great musicians — as opposed to merely good ones — know music is so vast, you can never learn it all. Saxophonist, composer and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath expresses that feeling nicely with the title ...