Jazz Articles about Jimmy Heath

About Jimmy Heath

Album Review

For those of us who weren't able to attend any of the now-becoming-legendary Left Bank Jazz Society sessions, Label M's continuing documentation of the excitement within the Famous Ballroom provides the best available substitute for having been there. Better yet, these Left Bank Jazz Society sessions now are being documented for the attention of the world beyond Baltimore, allowing jazz fans to realize how legendary jazz musicians performed in the informal venues that were less controlled than the studio recordings, ...

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Album Review

Jimmy Heath: The Professor

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1998

The Professor is taken from three small-group Landmark sessions of 1974, 1985, and 1987. Jimmy Heath plays tenor on most tracks, alto on “The Voice of the Saxophone," and soprano on “No End" & “Sophisticated Lady." The compilation gets its title from Heath’s ten-year tenure as a professor for The Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College; he retired last year. In the liner notes, Joel Dorn reminds us that this music called jazz is passed from generation to ...