HEATH, JAMES EDWARD (JIMMY
). Jazz saxophonist ( in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He came from a musical family: his father played clarinet in a band, and two brothers,
Albert (Tootie
) and Percy
, became professional musicians. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at the Theodore Presser School of Music in Philadelphia (1944-45). Later he studied orchestration with
Rudolph Schramm
. From the mid-1940s to the late-1960s...