LA Weekly's Erica Zora Wrightson profiles Albert "Tootie" Heath, now of Altadena, who's played with the likes of John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, and Herbie Hancock. Our favorite quote:
“You know, there’s an old Duke Ellington saying,” Heath recalls. “To
play jazz you got to have one foot in Africa and the other foot in
today. And I think it has expanded a bit: You got to have one foot in
Africa and one foot in the future. If you bring along your culture and
all of the things you’ve experienced to the future, it makes it richer.”
