Library — Double Bass

Percy Heath

Percy Heath — Double Bass. Played on Roses Of Picardy, Jazz Original, Kenny Clarke. Worked with Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke, Dizzy Gillespie.

Percy Heath's albums

Roses Of Picardy
Dizzy Gillespie And Johnny Richards And His Orchestra · 1954
Dizzy At Home And Abroad
Dizzy Gillespie · 1958
The Modern Jazz Sextet
Modern Jazz Sextet, The · 1956
The Lonely One
Bud Powell · 1959

Percy Heath is remembered as the bassist anchoring the Modern Jazz Quartet, but before he ever picked up an instrument he trained as a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. The war ended before he saw combat; back home, urged by his brothers, he picked up the bass instead — the same hands heard here on the 1954 session for Roses Of Picardy.

Percy Heath's albums