Percy Heath,, was a jazz musician, famous for position as double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet. He was the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk. At the age of 81, he released his first album as bandleader through the Daddy Jazz label.

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  • Percy Heath,, was a jazz musician, famous for position as double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet. He was the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk. At the age of 81, he released his first album as bandleader through the Daddy Jazz label. The album, titled A Love Song, garnered rave reviews and served as a fitting coda for Heath's illustrious career. Heath was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and spent his childhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father played the clarinet and his mother sang in the church choir. He started playing violin at age 8 and also sang locally. He was drafted into the Army in 1944, becoming a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, but saw no combat. Deciding after the war to go into music, he bought a stand-up bass and enrolled in the Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia. Soon he was playing in the city's jazz clubs with leading artists. In Chicago in 1948, he recorded with his brother on a Milt Jackson album as members of the Howard McGhee Sextet. After moving to New York in the late 1940s, Percy and Jimmy Heath found work with Dizzy Gillespie's groups. Around this time, he was also a member of Joe Morris's band, together with Johnny Griffin. It transpired that other members of the Gillespie big band, pianist John Lewis, drummer Kenny Clarke, Milt Jackson, and bassist Ray Brown, decided to form a permanent group---they were already becoming known for their interludes during Gillespie band performances that, as AllMusic. com says, gave the rest of the band much-needed set breaks---that would eventually become known as the Modern Jazz Quartet. When Brown left the group to join his wife Ella Fitzgerald's band, Heath joined and the group was officially begun in 1952, with Connie Kay replacing Clarke soon afterward. The MJQ played regularly until it disbanded in 1974; it reformed in 1981 and last recorded in 1993. In 1975, Percy Heath and his brothers formed the Heath Brothers with pianist Stanley Cowell. He would sometimes play the cello instead of the bass in these later performances. He died, after a second bout with bone cancer, two days short of his 82nd birthday, in Southampton, New York.
  • Percy Heath war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Kontrabassist. Aufgewachsen in Philadelphia, lernte Percy zunächst Geige und spielte im Schulorchester Violine, bis er im Bass sein ideales Instrument fand. Nach der Dienstzeit bei der US-Air Force begann er ein Musikstudium an der Granoff School of Music. 1947 ging er mit seinem Bruder, dem Komponisten und Saxophonisten Jimmy Heath, nach New York City zur Band von Howard McGhee. Aber auch mit anderen Protagonisten des modernen Jazz arbeitete er, so mit Charlie Parker und Thelonious Monk, mit Miles Davis, J. J. Johnson, Sonny Rollins oder Fats Navarro. Von 1950-52 war Percy Heath Bassist im Sextett von Dizzy Gillespie. Danach gründete er mit drei Freunden aus dem Milt Jackson Quartet das Modern Jazz Quartet, das durch zahlreiche Auftritte in vier Jahrzehnten internationales Ansehen erlangen sollte. Seine Partner waren außer Milt Jackson (Vibraphon) noch John Aaron Lewis (Piano) und Kenny Clarke (Schlagzeug), alle aus der Gruppe um Gillespie. 1955 wirkte er an dem Prestige-Album Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet / Sextet, mit dem seine langjährige Zusammenarbeit mit Miles Davis endete. 1975 gründete er mit seinen Brüdern Jimmy und Albert „Tootie“ Heath die Formation The Heath Brothers. Er arbeitete auch mit Sarah Vaughan und war an einer großen Zahl von Produktionen der Labels Prestige und Blue Note beteiligt. Percy Heath verstarb kurz vor seinem 82. Geburtstag an Knochenkrebs. Noch am 7. November 2003 trat er mit seinen Brüdern (The Night of the Brothers) und den Petrocca-Brothers in der sechsten JazzNight von Baden-Baden auf. 2002 erhielt er das Jazz Masters Fellowship der staatlichen NEA-Stiftung.
  • Percy Heath, était un jazzman américain. Il fut contrebassiste du Modern Jazz Quartet. Il a joué avec les Géants mais aussi avec ses frères Tootsie (drums) Jimmy (ténor sax). Il demeurait à Montauk (Long Island), était un pêcheur averti était connu de tous les amateurs de turbots ("fluke")? Sa contrebasse avait été trouvée à Berlin par son ami Pierre Michelot qui après l'avoir essayée, a téléphoné à Percy en lui suggérant fortement de l'acheter. Percy accepta et ce fut toujours son instrument avec les restaurations dues à une vénérable dame. Il a également composé quelques morceaux dont un certain "Watergate Blues".....!
  • Era il fratello del sassofonista Jimmy Heath e del batterista Tootie Heath, con cui formò il gruppo degli Heath Brothers nel 1975. Heath lavorò anche con Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, e Thelonious Monk. A 81 anni pubblicò il suo primo album come leader per la Daddy Jazz. Intitolato A Love Song, l'album ebbe ottime recensioni e fu la trionflae conclusione dell'illustre carriera di Heath. Heath era nato a Wilmington, North Carolina e passò la sua infanzia a Filadelfia. Suo padre suonava il clarinetto e la madre cantava nel coro della chiesa. A 8 anni Percy intraprese lo studio del violino e iniziò a cantare. Nel 1944 fu arruolato nell'esercito anche se non fu mai mandato in combattimento. Dopo la guerra, avendo deciso di intraprendere la carriera musicale, comprò un contrabbasso e s'iscrisse alla Granoff School of Music di Philadelphia. Poco dopo iniziò a suonare nei jazz club della città assieme ai musicisti più importanti della scena. Trasferitisi a New York alla fine degli anni '40, Percy e Jimmy Heath entrarono a far parte del gruppo di Dizzy Gillespie. Alcuni membri del gruppo di Dizzy, John Lewis, Kenny Clarke, Milt Jackson, e Ray Brown, decisero di formare un gruppo che sarebbe divenuto il Modern Jazz Quartet. Quando Ray Brown se ne andò per unirsi all'orchestra della moglie, Ella Fitzgerald, Percy Heath lo sostituì e il gruppo debuttò ufficialmente nel 1952. Il MJQ sarebbe rimasto unito fino al 1974. Nel 1975, Percy e i suoi fratelli formarono gli Heath Brothers col pianista Stanley Cowell. Con questo gruppo Percy prese talvolta a suonare il violoncello. Morì due giorni prima del suo ottantaduesimo compleanno, a causa di un cancro, a Southampton, nello stato di New York.
  • パーシー・ヒース（Percy Heath, 1923年4月30日 - 2005年4月28日）は、アメリカ合衆国ノースカロライナ州出身のジャズのベース奏者。テナーサックス奏者のジミー・ヒース、ドラマーのトゥーティー・ヒースは兄弟である。
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  • Percy Heath,, was a jazz musician, famous for position as double bass player for the Modern Jazz Quartet. He was the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk. At the age of 81, he released his first album as bandleader through the Daddy Jazz label.
  • Percy Heath war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Kontrabassist. Aufgewachsen in Philadelphia, lernte Percy zunächst Geige und spielte im Schulorchester Violine, bis er im Bass sein ideales Instrument fand. Nach der Dienstzeit bei der US-Air Force begann er ein Musikstudium an der Granoff School of Music. 1947 ging er mit seinem Bruder, dem Komponisten und Saxophonisten Jimmy Heath, nach New York City zur Band von Howard McGhee.
  • Percy Heath, était un jazzman américain. Il fut contrebassiste du Modern Jazz Quartet. Il a joué avec les Géants mais aussi avec ses frères Tootsie (drums) Jimmy (ténor sax). Il demeurait à Montauk (Long Island), était un pêcheur averti était connu de tous les amateurs de turbots ("fluke")? Sa contrebasse avait été trouvée à Berlin par son ami Pierre Michelot qui après l'avoir essayée, a téléphoné à Percy en lui suggérant fortement de l'acheter.
  • Era il fratello del sassofonista Jimmy Heath e del batterista Tootie Heath, con cui formò il gruppo degli Heath Brothers nel 1975. Heath lavorò anche con Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, e Thelonious Monk. A 81 anni pubblicò il suo primo album come leader per la Daddy Jazz. Intitolato A Love Song, l'album ebbe ottime recensioni e fu la trionflae conclusione dell'illustre carriera di Heath. Heath era nato a Wilmington, North Carolina e passò la sua infanzia a Filadelfia.
  • パーシー・ヒース（Percy Heath, 1923年4月30日 - 2005年4月28日）は、アメリカ合衆国ノースカロライナ州出身のジャズのベース奏者。テナーサックス奏者のジミー・ヒース、ドラマーのトゥーティー・ヒースは兄弟である。
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