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The Heath Brothers Jimmy Heath, Tenor Saxophone • Percy Heath, Bass & Cello Albert T H E U N I V E R S IT Y OF N ORT H FL O R I D A GREAT AMERICAN JAZZ SERIES " ... a musical language all their own" Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune The Heath Brothers Jimmy Heath, tenor saxophone • Percy Heath, bass & cello Albert "Tootie" Heath, drums Jeb Patton, piano also featuring the UNF Jazz Ensemble I • Dr. Keith Javors. director Thursday, October 4, 2001 • 7:30pm Andrew Robinson Theater • University of North Florida About the UNF Jazz Program • • • " . where the pros go to school. " Down Beat Magazine The Jazz Program at the and Dr. Keith Javors (since 1997 Mobile Jazz Festival and University of North Florida was January 2001 ), the band has both the 1998 and 1999 Notre established in 1986 with a Chair emerged both nationally and Dame Jazz Festivals. In May in American Music, endowed by internationally as a spotlighted 1998, the Down Beat Magazine Ira M. Koger, Jacksonville busi­ representation of only the best in Student Music Award for Best nessman and philanthropist. collegiate big band jazz. Jazz Instrumental Group was Rich Matteson, noted jazz edu­ Over the past fifteen years, the presented to the UNF Jazz cation pioneer and euphonium UNF Jazz Ensemble I has been Combo. In May 1999, Down performer, was appointed Distin­ selected to perform at IAJE Beat Magazine presented two guished Professor of American Conferences in Atlanta, Boston, Student Music Awards to UNF Music and quickly established the Miami and New Orleans; the Jazz Combos. program as one of the leading jazz prestigious Mid-West Band and A special component of the schools in the country. The jazz Orchestra Clinic in Chicago; the program that regularly brings in program is committed to quality Suncoast Jazz Festival in Tampa; stellar jazz artists is the Great undergraduate jazz teaching and twice at the Savannah Jazz American Jazz Series. At the offers a comprehensive Bachelor Festival; twice at the Mobile Jazz conclusion of each artist's resi­ of Music degree in Jazz Studies. Festival; and annually at the dency, a concert is presented in Bunky Green, a past president Jacksonville Jazz Festival. The the Robinson Theater with of the International Association of Ensemble was invited to the 1997 proceeds going toward student Jazz Educators (IAJE) and Montreux Jazz Festival in scholarships for the following recipient of the coveted five-star Switzerland, and selected to per­ year. The UNF Jazz Ensemble I rating in Down Beat for his CD form at the 1998 Note Dame Jazz has performed in concert with "Healing the Pain," was named Festival. The band was recognized more than eighty jazz artists the Director of Jazz Studies at for "Outstanding Performance - including Herbie Hancock, The UNF in 1991 upon Matteson's Best Jazz Big Band" in the 1998 Count Basie Orchestra, Joe retirement. Green is one of the DownBeat Magazine Student Henderson, Pat Metheny, Michael world's finest jazz saxophonists Music Awards. The band was also and Randy Brecker, Dave and has also often been acknow­ invited to perform at the North Brubeck, Joe Williams, Diane ledged in leading publications for Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague Schuur, Louie Bellson, Eddie his talents as an educator. In (Netherlands) July 14-16, 2000. Daniels, Arturo Sandoval, Jimmy January 1999, he was inducted Individual members have won Heath, and Branford Marsalis, to into the International Association International Trumpet Guild name but a few. of Jazz Educators "Hall of Fame" competitions, TUBA Jazz Eupho­ Fundraising efforts for scholar­ for his lifelong outstanding nium competitions, Best Soloist ships are constantly ongoing contribution to jazz education. awards at National Collegiate Jazz behind the scenes of UNF's jazz The flagship of the jazz Competitions, have placed in the program. Stipends are granted program is the UNF Jazz Saxophone Alliance Jazz Compe­ annually by audition to highly Ensemble I. Under the direction tition, and have been spotlighted qualified and deserving students of Rich Matteson (] 986-90), in Down Beat Magazine as stellar to help facilitate the cost of Bruce Silva (] 990-95), Don Zentz student musicians. UNF students attaining a first-class education in (1995-98), J.B. Scott (1998-2000), won a myriad of accolades at the Jazz Studies at UNF. About the Artists ... The appropriately titled 'Jazz Family' (CCD-4846-2) is the second Concord Jazz recording for the Heath Brothers. Contemplating the family legacy, middle brother Jimmy, 71 , the one who writes, arranges, and plays saxophones, remarks: "We're lucky enough that all of us are still here. Between us, we've got over 150 years of experience and we are the elders of the surviving families of this music." Brother Percy, 75, a bassist of considerable renown, is the senior brother. Albert "Tootie," the LA based drummer, is the baby of the group at 63. "Some baby," his middle brother wryly observes. Although Jimmy and Percy gigged together in and around their Philadelphia home in the 40s, most notably with Dizzy Gillespie, it wasn't until Jimmy's Riverside recordings in the late 50s that the three brothers had a chance to really play together. "By that time," Jimmy recalls, "Percy was out all the time with the Modern Jazz Quartet and Tootie was working with J.J. Johnson and Bobby Timmons." There have been several incarnations of the Heath Brothers as a group, but there was a fourteen­ year layover between recordings until last year's As We Were Saying... (CCD-4777-2), their Concord Jazz debut. Since Percy left the MJQ, Jimmy reports that ''we've been working some but Percy is retired so we pick and choose the gigs we want." Jimmy also works with his own group and big band, maintaining a very consistent composing and arranging agenda as well. After more than a decade of teaching, Jimmy retired this year from Queens College, where a chair was named in his honor at the Aaron Copland School of Music. When he's not playing with his elder brothers, Tootie leads his own group. Percy spends most of his days fishing and painting (his work appeared in the CD booklet of the last release, and this recording showcases a painting entitled "Percy's Vision #2"). Two of the tracks on this recording utilize a brass choir, arranged by Jimmy. "I did some things with this instrumentation for Sonny Rollins on the recording, 'Old Flames,' and I really like the way it came out. Plus, throughout my career, I've been using french horns and tubas, like on 'Swamp Seed,' and 'New Picture,' so that's why I decided to use the brass choir here. It adds a richness, a sustained beautiful quality to the music without adding a string section. If you have 12-15 strings, you can get a beautiful sound but usually most jazz recordings only use 3-4 and get a very thin sound which doesn't give you the warm cushion." Jazz Family includes four compositions by Jimmy: "Thirteenth House," which was originally recorded by McCoy Tyner, "Wind Print," which he describes as being "like a finger print, the music makes a brief and fleeting print in the air," "A Harmonic Future," part of a suite he wrote for the Lincoln Center Jazz Program that featured the late Joe Henderson, and "Three At Last." Jimmy credits journalist Willard Jenkins with that title, from an article about the group that appeared earlier this year in JazzTimes magazine. The other original on this recording is Percy's "Move to the Groove," which Jimmy describes as "a blues with a little bebop sequence thrown in." Jimmy reports that he's ''writing all the time. If I get the germ of an idea, I develop until I get something I'm satisfied with, at least momentarily. But it can be changed later. It's a daily thing with me and I spend a lot of time at the piano and on my saxophone, as well as the computer." The oldest of the three Brothers, Percy's association with the Modern Jazz Quartet has been the dominant activity in his distinguished career. Long prized as the ideal accompanist with a warm, appealing tone, Percy is a superb soloist as well, as evidenced by his feature on "I'm Lost," which utilizes his "baby bass." Originally a violinist, Percy switched to bass in 1946, soon performing locally on the vibrant Philly scene. He moved to New York in 194 7 to join trumpeter Howard McGhee's band alongside Jimmy. Over the next four years, he played with a Who's Who of Bebop, including Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Miles, J.J. Johnson and Fats Navarro. In 1951 he joined vibraphonist Milt Jackson's Quartet, which became the Modem Jazz Quartet the following year. One of the most popular groups in Jazz, the MJQ toured and recorded steadily over the next 23 years. After they temporarily disbanded, Percy joined Jimmy and Tootie in the Heath Brothers, an arrangement that lasted from 1975-82. When the MJQ regrouped, Percy was back on board. After drummer Connie Kay's death in 1995, the MJQ wound down, with Tootie filling in on drums for their final engagements. Albert "Tootie" Heath has long been a respected hard-bop based drummer known for an open mind towards more commercial styles of jazz. After moving to New York from Philadelphia in 1957, he made his debut on John Coltrane's first solo recording, "Coltrane." He then joined trombonist J.J. Johnson's group for three years, and the Jazztet, Art Farmer and Benny Golson's ensemble, for two. At the time, Tootie was also the house drummer for Riverside Records, playing on many recordings for the label.
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