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Jimmy Heath Rails About Potential NEA Jazz Masters Cuts
Jimmy Heath was hopping mad. On Aug. 7, during the Litchfield Jazz Festival in Kent, Conn., the 84-year-old saxophonist and band leader joined saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Matt Wilson for a freewheeling conversation. Feature by Frank Alkyer for DOWNBEAT
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling nominees of JJA Awards
The winners of the 2011 Jazz Journalist Associations Awards will be announced at a benefit gala at City Winery in New York City on June 11. Over 200 artists have been nominated in 39 categories. Article by Brian Scott Lipton for THEATERMANIA
Jimmy Heath: Why Ben Webster Learned the Lyrics
At this year's Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, an annual event held in February in Rockville, Maryland, JT's Larry Appelbaum conducted a "Before and After" with Jimmy Heath. Larry graciously allowed me to document this interview. Video by Bret Primack for JAZZTIMES.
Talking Shop with Jimmy and Benny
Jimmy Heath and Benny Golson, elder statesman of jazz, go way back together — as grand masters of the tenor saxophone and the art of jazz composition. Here they reminisce about days past, before Heath Brothers played NYC. Article by Greg Thomas for NY DAILY NEWS
Jazz Journalist Award Nominations Announced
The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) announced the final nominations for its annual awards, presented in a broad range of categories covering the music as well as those who cover and present the music. Jimmy Heath's extraordinary autobiography, "I Walked With Giants" is nominated. Lee Mergner for JAZZTIMES
Jimmy Heath: The Endless Search
Loved by his bop-era colleagues as well as generations of disciples, veteran saxophonist-composer-arranger Jimmy Heath is an active octogenarian on the scene, still swinging after all these years. Interview by Bill Milkowski for JAZZTIMES
Heath Brothers: Endurance
While the album title is a comment on the Heaths’ longevity, there is more than just prolonged existence represented here. This group continues to exercise a broad range of creativity throughout, with superb self-editing skills. A class act all the way. Album Review by Owen Cordle for JAZZTIMES
