Jazz Articles about Albert Tootie Heath

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Yusef Lateef: Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase

by Pierre Giroux
May 18, 2026

Some nights vanish into the ether, while others wait, patiently, until the world is ready to hear them. Such is the case with Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase. Resonance Records has released this adventurous 1975 recording as a limited-edition 180-gram 3-LP set and a 3-CD release, which feels less like an archival project than a living document. Yusef Lateef, ever the seeker, arrives here not merely as a saxophonist and flutist but as a guide through ...

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Yusef Lateef: Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase

by Troy Dostert
May 12, 2026

One of the legendary figures of Detroit jazz, Yusef Lateef experienced a truly distinctive path of artistic development, with a trajectory which took him from swing, bebop and R&B in the 1940s and 1950s through a deep immersion in world music, funk and classical idioms during the 1960s and beyond. Somehow incorporating all of these disparate strands and more, Resonance Records' three-disc extravaganza, Alight Upon the Lake, gives us a thorough glimpse of Lateef's multifaceted identity in the company of ...

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Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert from Avignon

by Stefano Merighi
November 7, 2025

Tra gli outsider del jazz più prolifici, Yusef Lateef fino alla scomparsa (a 93 anni nel 2013) ha continuato a comporre, incidere, sempre evitando con gentilezza di essere accostato alla parola jazz, inventando invece il termine “autophysiopsychic" per descrivere una musica che fin dagli anni Cinquanta ha messo in contatto molto seriamente la cultura asiatica con quella afro-americana (Lateef ha soggiornato quattro anni in Nigeria negli anni Settanta), lontano dall'industra musicale, vicino invece alla didattica e creativamente proteso verso la ...

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Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert From Avignon

by Pierre Giroux
April 27, 2024

Yusef Lateef's performance in Atlantis Lullaby is a masterclass in communication and demonstration of synergy. In this previously unreleased performance recorded in Avignon, France in 1972, Lateef, on soprano sax, tenor sax and flute, is accompanied by Kenny Barron on piano, Bob Cunningham on bass and Albert “Tootie" Heath on drums. This two-CD package is being released by Elemental Music and produced for release by Zev Feldman. It contains a 23-page booklet with stories and reminiscences about Lateef from Feldman, ...

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Albert "Tootie" Heath: Class Personified

by R.J. DeLuke
April 13, 2024

This article was first published on All About Jazz on March 9, 2015. Albert “Tootie" Heath is among the drummers who lived--and thrived--during what many call the golden age of jazz, the '40s, '50, early '60s. He's enjoyed the fruits of a varied and historic career, but never stayed put. Just kept working. He admires the musicians of today and the direction of jazz. The Philadelphia native extols hip-hop for its status in today's music world. On the ...

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Remembering Albert 'Tootie' heath

by Ian Patterson
April 13, 2024

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Clifford Jordan: These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly

by Chris May
May 6, 2021

These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly is an oft overlooked item in the canon of tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, whose chef d'oeuvre was undoubtedly Glass Bead Games (Strata-East, 1974), one of the most exalted jazz albums of its era. But These Are My Roots, which was originally released on Atlantic in 1965 and has in 2021 been reissued on vinyl by British audiophile label Pure Pleasure, is of more than passing interest. The hard bop ...