In addition to being an instrumentalist, Jimmy Heath, 87, composes, arranges and orchestrates. “He is one of the most important and essential soldiers in the armies of jazz’s greatest players,” says Phil Schaap, a curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Read more and listen to an NPR interview here. Hear him in a 2001 interview on “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland here (with bassist Rufus Reid).
