Albert "Tootie" Heath , the youngest of the three Heath Brothers is 31 March 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania born and thus plays the youngest member of the family, often in the shadow of his older brother by 12 years Percy Heath be 9 years and older brother Jimmy Heath . growth does Albert Heath as his two older brothers already in Philadelphia and while Percy and Jimmy left home soon to move to New York City and play the trumpeter Howard McGhee, is Albert until his 12. Age of almost daily with his two brothers together, and sees the two with their instrument, Percy at first the violin, and later on bass and Jimmy Heath, first on alto saxophone. The music fascinated him and he can hardly escape the very musical direction of the family. Even the parents of three sons, it used to make music, Funny People clarinet Albert's father, while his mother sang in the church choir. Alberts instrument over the years, then the drums, a development similar to another large family of jazz - the Jones Brother, consisting of the pianist Hank Jones, trumpeter Thad Jones, and drummer Elvin Jones.
The first important recordings makes Albert in 1957 when he and the tenor saxophonist John Coltrane is on stage with him and make shots.
Although Albert Heath is a great drummer and his career as a musician at a very often with many great jazz musicians such as Kenny Drew, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, JJ Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons and Cedar has played together for Walton, he was never really out of the shadows of his two older brothers. The main reason is that Percy Heath with the Modern Jazz Quartet in part celebrated the greatest success that can only celebrate a jazz musician Jimmy Heath and proved to be a one-time exceptional talent as a composer and arranger. It's hard to face with such brothers into the spotlight, yet managed to "Tootie" often, as a friendly musician, who by his fellow musicians often as gifted and talented, but also as a purposeful Drummer was recognized.
Not to conceal is of course that Albert owes his two brothers a lot, because she paved the way for music, and served as a guide for him and partly as a model.
The fact that the three brothers are all but an irresistible trio seen in 1975, when Albert, along with Percy and Jimmy founded the group "The Heath Brothers" . As a drummer, he provides here for the critical pulse and drives the game with his masterful ideas ahead of his two brothers. In 1982 this group then separates and each of the musicians go their own ways, triggered mainly by the Percy Heath returns to the Modern Jazz Quartet, that the following year reformatted, go diving Albert his own path as a musician.
Even today, the now 71-year-old Albert "Tootie" Heath active as a musician in the New York jazz scene and is the leader and producer of "The Whole Drum Truth," a jazz percussion ensemble consisting of the great masters of percussion such as Ed Thigpen, Billy Hart, Louis Hayes or Ben Riley.
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