Jimmy Heath

WBGO's Gary Walker chats with Antonio Hart and Clyde Bullard at the June 28 "Tootie" Heath concert at Flushing Town Hall

On this episode of AOS, WBGO's Gary Walker chats with Antonio Hart and Clyde Bullard about the All-Star Salute to the late "Tootie" Heath at Flushing Town Hall

WBGO’s Lee Mergner shares his choices for the best jazz memoirs, including works by Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Art Pepper and others.

Two featured performers were Chicago vocalist Tammy McCann and Antonio Hart, with the Jimmy Heath Big Band he now leads

To state the obvious, this was a year like no other.For many of us, 2020 was a heartbreaker, a marathon slog, a stress engine — or all of the above. At…

If you’ve been a jazz fan for any length of time, you know farewells are an essential part of the deal.But this was a harder year than most, as the…

In 2008, SportsJam host Doug Doyle brought two legendary figures together to talk about how they dealt racial segregation in the Jim Crow Era and well as…

Jimmy Heath, a saxophonist, composer, arranger, educator and 2003 NEA Jazz Master who came of age in the bebop era, and did much to sway the course of…

One saxophonist is in his 30s, and recently hit full stride. Another one is 90, still very much in the game. Both players — Terrace Martin is the former,…

Kenny Baron, Paquito D’ Rivera, and Jimmy Heath headline the upcoming 7th Annual James Moody Jazz Scholarship of New Jersey benefit.The James Moody…