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Article: Live From New York

May 2008

by AAJ Staff
May 5, 2008

Lock 10 at Joe's Pub Kathy Hendrickson's play Lock 10 is the story of a white guitarist in the 1930s seeking to leave the family business to go on tour with an integrated band. Staged as a period radio play, with actors playing actors voicing roles, it makes for an odd telling. The actors aren't tethered ...

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Really Big!

By Jimmy Heath

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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Article: Album Review

Jimmy Heath Orchestra: Really Big!

Read "Really Big!" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
October 17, 2007

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 ...

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Turn Up the Heath

By Jimmy 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

by Jack Bowers
December 11, 2006

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 ...

Article: Profile

Blue Mitchell

by Robert Spencer
March 8, 2004

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 ...

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Hub Cap (RVG Edition)

By Freddie Hubbard

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

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Jam Gems

By Freddie Hubbard

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

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The Professor

By Jimmy Heath

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

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 ...