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Really Big!

Label: Riverside
Released: 2007
Track listing: Big "P"; Old Fashioned Fun; Mona's Mood; Dat Dere; Nails; On Green Dolphin Street; My Ideal; the Picture Of Health; Nails.

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Jimmy Heath Orchestra: Really Big!

Read "Really Big!" reviewed by Joel Roberts


The ten-piece band on this invigorating 1960 Riverside release by Jimmy Heath wasn't “really big, but the talent level of the artists certainly was. How about Clark Terry on trumpet, Nat Adderley on cornet, brother Cannonball on alto sax and either Tommy Flanagan or Cedar Walton on piano? Plus, all three Heath brothers (Jimmy on tenor ...

Album

Turn Up the Heath

Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Big P; Heritage Hum; Gemini; Like a Son; I

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The Jimmy Heath Big Band: Turn Up the Heath

Read "Turn Up the Heath" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Back in the early '90s I asked tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath if he planned a followup to his Grammy-nominated album, Little Man Big Band (Verve, 1992). As I recall, he smiled politely but didn't really answer the question. Now he has--and with an exclamation point. Describing how his latest superb album, Turn Up the Heath, came ...

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Blue Mitchell

Read "Blue Mitchell" reviewed by Robert Spencer


All About Jazz contributing writer C. Andrew Hovan said it best: “Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name ...

Album

Hub Cap (RVG Edition)

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Hub Cap; Cry Me Not; Luana; Osie Mae; Plexus; Earmon Jr.; Plexus (alternate take).

Album

Jam Gems

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: All Members; Bluesville; Lover Man; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Autumn Leaves.

Album

The Professor

Label: 32 Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: The Time and the Place*; New Picture#; The Voice of the Saxophone*; Dewey Square#; Song for Ben Webster+; Forever Sonny+; No End*; Sophisticated Lady#.

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Jimmy Heath: The Professor

Read "The Professor" reviewed by Jim Santella


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 ...

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The Time & The Place

Label: HighNote
Released: 1994


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