HEATH, PERCY. Jazz bassist ( in Wilmington, North Carolina). See also MODERN JAZZ QUARTET. He came from a musical family: his father played clarinet in a band, and two brothers,
Albert (Tootie
)
and James (Jimmy
), became professional musicians. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Phildelphia, Pennsylvania, where he played violin in school orchestras, and at the Granoff School of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied string bass. During the 1940s he played...