A Parting Masterpiece From Legendary Saxophonist Jimmy Heath
Verve Records Releases Love Letter - The Collection Of Classic Ballads 

The Album Features Superstars Gregory Porter, Cécile McLorin Salvant, And Wynton Marsalis

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Verve Records releases Love Letter, the first all-ballads album from magisterial tenor saxophonist-composer Jimmy Heath. In addition to his original material, this elegant collection offers the jazz ambassador's beautiful take on ballad classics, and includes songs written by Billie Holiday, Mal Waldron, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, and Gordon Parks. The album also features 21st century vocal superstars Gregory Porter and Cécile McLorin Salvant, and trumpet icon Wynton Marsalis.  Love Letter is available worldwide now and you can listen to the album here.

For Love Letter, Jimmy presided over a brilliant cast of colleagues and friends. Joining Maestro Heath is a multi-generational all-star unit, including NEA Jazz Master pianist Kenny Barron, esteemed guitarist Russell Malone, soulful vibraphone veteran Monte Croft, New York first-call bassist David Wong, and all-world drummer Lewis Nash.  Love Letter features all new arrangements by Heath on Gillespie's "Con Alma," Dorham's "La Mesha" (featuring Marsalis), Gordon Parks' "Don't Misunderstand," and "Left Alone" the Billie Holiday Mal Waldron collaboration, as well as three originals chosen from his vast body of work.  Heath's soulful, trenchant, urbane solo flights evoke his poetic spirit with old master concision and the authoritative chops of a musician half his age. 

A listener unfamiliar with the backstory of Love Letter would not imagine that the orchestrator and primary instrumental voice on this recording is a jockey-framed, spirited, 93-year-old man, who with the full breadth of his intellectual powers, delivers his final, magnificent salvo.

Jimmy Heath - Love Letter, Audio Bites

Jimmy Heath On Left Alone Don't Explain And Singing On The Saxophone

Jimmy Heath On Gregory Porter Part 2

Jimmy Heath On Gregory Porter Part 1

Jimmy Heath On Dizzy Gillespie Part 2

Jimmy Heath On Dizzy Gillespie Part 1

Jimmy Heath On Cécile McLorin Salvant

Jimmy Heath "Blessed To Be Here At 93"

Jimmy Heath "A Ballad Album At 93"   "A Life Of Love"

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Jimmy Heath - Love Letter, Audio Bites

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