Percy Heath [SEP] place of death
featured brother Albert Heath on drums, bassist Peter Washington and pianist Jeb Patton.
Percy Heath died, after a second bout with bone cancer, two days short of his 82nd birthday, in Southampton, New York.
Heath was an avid striped bass fisherman, and surfcaster, who could be found on many a day, along the surf line of his beloved Montauk Point. He was well respected by the community, and his fellow fishermen. On May 27, 2006, a plaque was set into a 5000lb
still exists with just two of the brothers, Jimmy and Tootie, and additional sidemen as needed. The DVD, "Brotherly Jazz: The Heath Brothers", recorded in 2004, shortly before Percy Heath's death, was one of the last times the three brothers played together, and chronicled the Heath Brothers' personal lives as well as socio-political issues many jazz musicians dealt with in the later 20th century, including jail, drugs, discrimination and segregation. The 2009 CD "Endurance" was the first without Percy