Grammy Nominations
Received Grammy nomination for box set liner notes
of The Heavyweight Champion, John Coltrane, the Complete Atlantic
Recordings (Rhino), 1995
Received Grammy nomination for Little Man Big Band
(Verve), produced by Bill Cosby, 1994
Received Grammy nomination for Live at the Public
Theatre (Columbia), with The Heath Brothers, 1980
Selected Recordings & Liner Notes
Recorded with Gerald Wilson Big Band, 1/04
Recorded with Angela Hagenbach "Poetry of Love"
3/04
Re-issued Heath Brothers "Expressions of Life/In
Motion" Col 6896 9/11/01 Collectables Rec
Re-issued First Heath Brothers Album on CD "Marachin
On" Strata East Records 10/10/01.
Released 2001 "Jam Gems" Live at Left Bank - Label
M - Freddie Hubbard & Jimmy Heath
Recorded The Heath Brothers, Jazz Family (Concord)
with The Heath Brothers, May 29 – 31, 1998; released September 1998
Recorded As We Were Saying . . . (Concord) with
The Heath Brothers, February 23 – 25, 1997; released August 1997
Recorded TS Monk on Monk (N2K) with T. S. Monk to
celebrate the 80th Birthday of his father, Thelonious, February 16, 1997
Wrote box set liner notes for The Heavyweight
Champion, John Coltrane, the Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino), 1995
Wrote liner notes for Antonio Hart’s CD, Here I
Stand (Impulse), 1995
Recorded You or Me (SteepleChase) with Jimmy Heath
Quartet, April 23, 1995; released October 1995
Recorded Hi-Fly (Milestone/Fantasy) with The
Riverside Reunion Band at the Pori International Jazz Festival in Pori,
Finland, July 25, 1994
Recorded Mostly Monk, A Tribute to Thelonious Monk
(and Wes Montgomery & Cannonball Adderley) (Milestone/Fantasy), with The
Riverside Reunion Band, September 20, 1993
Recorded “Ellington’s Stray-Horn” on Jazz at
Lincoln Center Presents: The Fire of The Fundamentals (Columbia/Sony
Music), February 14, 1993
Arranged and conducted a Brass Choir for “Prelude
to a Kiss” and “Darn that Dream” selections on Sonny Rollins’ recording,
Old Flames (Milestone/Fantasy), 1993
Recorded 41st Anniversary Album (Atlantic) with
The Modern Jazz Quartet, 1993
Recorded Dedicated to Diz (Telarc), with Slide
Hampton and The Jazz Masters, 1993
Recorded Soul Connection (Enja) with Dusko
Goykovich, trumpet, 1993
Recorded with Densil Pinnock, vocalist, Uptown
Records, 1993
Recorded Little Man Big Band (Verve), original
composition and arrangements, produced by Bill Cosby, 1992
Released "Turn Up The Heath” with the Jimmy Heath
Big Band (www.PlanetArts.org), 10/9/2006
Jazz & Education
Master Classes at University of North Florida 9/01
and Julliard School, New York City 9/01.
Featured in the AT&T Jazz Tour of 10 southern
schools that are members of the Organizations of Jazz at African
American Colleges and Universities, 1997-1998; taught and performed
extensively at college workshops and seminars throughout his career
Conducted the National Guild Youth Jazz Band at
the National Festival of the Arts, Philadelphia, November 23, 1997
Adjudicated Saxophone Competition at the Annual
Thelonious Monk Competition, Washington, D.C., November 25, 1996, and
November 1991
Commissioned Works
Conducted Birmingham Youth Jazz
Ensemble;Commission Project April 21,01
"Sweet Jazzmobile" performed at Lincoln Center on
10/28/99 for choir and big band.
Received a commission from NYSCA through
Jazzmobile of New York City, August 24, 1998
Recorded commissioned work with J. J. Johnson on
Summer Solstice, 1997
Performed commissioned work, “Leadership,” for
installation of Howard University’s new president, H. Patrick Swygert,
April 11, 1996
Performed commissioned work “In Praise (from J. to
J.)” with Joe Henderson, The Heath Brothers, Wynton Marsalis, and the
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, August 4, 1994
Premiered commissioned symphonic work, “Three
Ears,” to celebrate 50th Anniversary of Queens College, Maurice Peress
conducting, 1988
Premiered and conducted commissioned work, The
Afro-American Suite of Evolution, for Creative Artists Program, Town
Hall, New York City, 1973
Performed a commissioned suite “The Endless
Search” with Seattle Jazz Orchestra, Nov. 4-5, 2007
Awards & Honors
Giants of Black History Award, Greater Harlem
Chamber of Commerce NYC 2/9/04
Duke Ellington Fellowship at Yale University
9/5/03
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Legacy Award 2/7/03
Honored by The National Visionary Leadership
Project 2003
Named 2003 American Jazz Master by the National
Endowment for the Arts 1/10/03
Artist of the Year, Flushing Council on Culture
and the Arts 12/14/02
Proclaimed "Jimmy Heath Day" at concert in
Wilmington,NC by Mayor 10/19/02
Heath Bros received The Diamond Award for
Excellence from Intl Association of African
American Music & A citation from the Mayor of
Phila June 8th 2002
First Jazz person to receive Honorary Doctor of
Music degree at Julliard School of Music 5/24/02
Received Benny Golson Jazz Master Award at Howard
University Wash,DC March 14 2002
75th Birthday Tribute concert at Lincoln Ctr 10th
&11th of October 2001 with LCJO+Guests
Heath Bros honored at tribute concert at Artist
Collective in Hartford CT March 24, 2001.
Received 2000 New York State Governor's Arts
Award from George Pataki on 11/20/00
Received Jazz Masters Award,S.Orange Dept. of
Recreation & Cultural Affairs 10/14/00
ReceivedTribute and Proclamation"Jimmy Heath Day"
Westchester Board of Legistrators 5/21/00.
Honored at JazzTimes Convention, “Give My Regards
to Broad Street, Salute to the Heath Brothers,” New York City, November
2, 1998
Received Dorie Miller Award from the Dorie Miller
Co-ops, Corona (Queens), New York, June 25, 1998
Elected to the South Carolina State University
Hall of Fame, April 10, 1998
Received (with Percy and Albert “Tootie” Heath)
the Count Basie Award from Queens Symphony, April 2, 1998
Honored at “A Tribute to Jimmy Heath,” concert at
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, January 9, 1998; hosted by Bill Cosby,
to establish The Jimmy Heath Chair at the Aaron Copland School of Music,
Queens College, New York City
Also received the QC Presidential Award.
Received Life Achievement Award from Jazz
Foundation of America, March 7, 1997
Received Phineas Newborn, Jr. Award of Excellence
at Jimmy Heath Tribute Concert, Merkin Hall, New York City, January 6,
1997
Received The Carter Woodson Foundation Award, May
10, 1996
Received Living Legends Jazz Award from
Afro-American Historical & Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, February 2,
1996
Received Afro-American Classical Music Award,
Northern New Jersey Alumni, Spelman College, March 18, 1995
Appointed to the Board of Trustees of the
Thelonious Monk Institute, 1995
Received New York Newsday Front Page Award,
November 22, 1994
Received Founder’s Award, Thelonious Monk
Institute of Jazz, November 21, 1994
Received The Dizzy Gillespie Achievement Award,
New York City, September 11, 1994
Received Greater Jamaica Development Corporation
Award, September 1994
Elected to the Hall/Walk of Fame with The Heath
Brothers, Philadelphia Music Alliance, April 2, 1993
Received Celebration of North Carolina Artists
Award, Greensboro Cultural Center, September 15, 1990
Received Honorary Doctorate, Sojourner-Douglas
College, Baltimore, Maryland, 1985
Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Louis
Armstrong House and Archives
Received The Barry Award from Barry Harris, 1989
Received Jazz Pioneers Award from BMI
Received Beacon's of Jazz Award at the New School
NYC, 2/22/05
LCJO performed "Passion or Fashion" dedicated to
Lyndon Johnson, narrated by Glen Close, 10/28-30/04
The Mt Airy Cultral Ctr Award 2004, 9/4/04
Received 3rd Honorary Doctorate at Queens College
CUNY, 6/3/04
Giants of Black Music Award 2004; Greater Harlem
Chamber of Commerce, 2/9/04
Honored by Oberlin Conservatory of Music Jazz
Studies Dept., 5/14/05
Received Humanitarium Award from IAJE, 1/14/06
Received Don Redman Heritage Award along with Hank
Jones, 6/24/06
Heath Brothers Documentary DVD “Brotherly Jazz”
DanSun Productions (www.brotherlyjazz.com)
Elected to Temple University,s Jazz Hall of Fame,
10/17/06
Heath's Symphonic composition “Three Ears” was
performed the second time for his 80th Birthday Celebration, 10/18/2006
Jazz & History
Participated on panel, Rhythm and Myth, The Paintings of Bob Thompson, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, October 6, 1998; discussion to examine how Thompson painted using the rhythms and improvisational techniques of jazz; part of an overall workshop focusing on mythology, symbolism, jazz, color, relationship between art, literature, and music, and the social and historical context in which Thompson (1937 – 1966) painted
Participated on panel, Windows and Mirrors: African - American and Jewish American Connections in Jazz, with Artie Shaw, Joe Wilder, Loren Schoenberg, David N. Baker, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (moderator), at the DC Jewish Community Center’s Cecile Goldman Theater in Washington, DC, July 19, 1998; panel supported concerts that were performed at the Lincoln Theatre and that featured the music of four of the twentieth century’s most celebrated African -American and Jewish jazz artists: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Artie Shaw
Hosted Jazz Talk for Jazz at Lincoln Center, “To Be or Not To Bop,” a behind-the-scenes look at Dizzy Gillespie’s small band music and the birth of Bebop, December 2, 1997
Completed Interview, Smithsonian Institution’s Oral History Program, March 4, 1995
Participated in Louis Armstrong Oral History Project at the Schomberg Center, New York City, July 17, 1996
Television / Radio
Heath Brothers from New Orleans Jazz and Blues
Festival 4/18/2002
Dizzy Gillespie Biography on A&E Channel, May
22nd, 2001
Appeared on ABC, televised from The Kennedy
Center, 2nd Annual Nissan Presents A Celebration of America’s Music,
Washington, D.C., January 3, 1998
Performed on CBS, televised from The Kennedy
Center, The Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony for Benny Carter, Washington,
D.C., December 28, 1996
Performed on ABC, televised from The Kennedy
Center, 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Thelonious Monk Competition,
Washington, D.C., November 25, 1996
Profiled on CBS Sunday Morning, May 5, 1996
Performed at The Kennedy Center with Billy Taylor
Trio for National Public Radio broadcast, 1996
Participated in National Public Radio panel
discussion of “Race and Culture in Jazz” with Wynton Marsalis, December
1995
Performed at the White House for PBS Special, July
18, 1993
Performed on The Joan Rivers Show, 1991
Performed on The Cosby Show, 1985
Affiliations
Appointed to the advisory panel of NYSCA April 1,
2002
Member of Advisory Board of International
Association of Jazz Educators 2000
Serves on Board of Advisors for Louis Armstrong
House and Archives, Queens College, and Flushing Town Hall NYC
Board of Trustees Thelonious Monk Instutute of
Jazz, Wash.DC.
Jimmy Heath plays an RPC mouthpiece, Vandoren
reeds, and Mark VI tenor and soprano saxophones.
Tours & Performances
Toured domestically and internationally on many
occasions, including the following noted tours:
Jazz cruise on the Norweigian Sun 10/26 thru
11/2/02
Chicago Fest on 9/31 and Monterey Festival 19th
thru 21st of September 2002
North Sea Festival in Holland,Pori Finland and
Bucharest,Romania 7/2002
Toured Europe with Heath Brothers, July 2000
QE2 J.Heath Qt and Big Band 10/99
West Coast with The Heath Brothers, January 1998
Europe, Japan, and Canada with The Faddis-Hampton-Heath
Sextet, Summer 1997
Japan with the New York Jazz All Stars, July 1995
Europe with The Riverside Reunion Band, July 1994
Europe with Slide Hampton & the Jazz Masters, July
1993 (also California, Sept 1993)
Philip Morris’ Super Band International Tours,
1992 & 1986
Performed with The Heath Brothers on the SS
Norway’s Floating Jazz Festival, October 24 – 31, 1998
Led The Jimmy Heath Big Band featuring The Heath
Brothers, Grand Hyatt at Grand Central Station, New York City, for WBGO
New Year’s Eve Gala and NPR Live Broadcast, 1997-98
Directed “Birks’ Works: Dizzy Gillespie’s
Small-Band Masterpieces” for Jazz at Lincoln Center, December 11 and 13,
1997
Performed at Benny Carter’s 90th Birthday Tribute
at the Hollywood Bowl, August 1997
Performed in The Heath Brothers Reunion Concert,
Columbia University, New York City, November 22, 1996
Led The Jimmy Heath Big Band on the SS Norway’s
Floating Jazz Festival November 2 – 9, 1996, and October 28 – November
4, 1995
Led The Jimmy Heath Big Band in Birthday Salute to
Jimmy Heath: 70th Birthday at the Blue Note, New York City, October 25,
1996; also 69th Birthday Week at the Iridium, New York City, October 17
– 23, 1995
Featured with the Ellington Band at Orchestra
Hall, Detroit, Michigan, October 4, 1996
Led The Jimmy Heath Big Band at the 4th Annual
Charlie Parker Festival, New York City, August 25, 1996; performed with
The Heath Brothers at the 3rd Annual Festival, 1995
Performed with Jon Faddis at Dizzy Gillespie
Tribute Concerts in Atlanta, Georgia, and Villingen, Germany, June 1996
Performed music of The Jimmy Heath Big Band, The
Kennedy Center, January 28, 1995
Performed Ellington’s “Three Black Kings” with the
Kalamazoo Symphony, March 1994
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