Albert tootie heath biography definition

Heath, Albert “Tootie”, bebop drummer; brother of Jimmy Heath and Percy Heath; b. Philadelphia, Pa., May 31, 1935. He began working locally in the 1950s with Bill Carney, a singer, percussionist, and impresario active in Philadelphia since the late 1940s. In 1954, “Mister C,” as he is known, put together a trio called the Hi- Tones with Shirley Scott (later it was Trudy Pitts, who became Carney’s wife), Heath, and John Coltrane. Coltrane felt that this was a real serious jazz group, telling Gitler, “We were too musical for certain rooms.” They played in and around Philadelphia on and off for at least a year, including N.J., and to Buffalo a couple of times. They played bebop (including “Half Nelson” and “Groovin’ High”); they rehearsed Coltrane’s arrangements of standards. In the late 1950s, Heath moved to N.Y. where he worked with J. J. Johnson from 1958-60; he also freelanced and recorded prolifically through the mid-1960s. In 1965, he moved to Stockho

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