Happy Birthday Albert "Tootie" Heath

HAPPY BIRTHDAY legend 🥁 🪘 Albert “Tootie” Heath - #HeathBrothers uncle to #JamesMtume - “The base of all music is the rhythm + I wanted to be a part of that and have that experience” - Albert Tootie Heath (born May 31, 1935)

You can find a National Endowment of the Arts interview with Tootie Heath here, and another one with Jazz Dot Org here.

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