Jazz composer and saxophone player Jimmy Heath dies at 93
One of the world's most enduring jazz performers has died.

NEW YORK (AP) - One of the world's most enduring jazz performers has died.
Jimmy Heath, a Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer, was 93.
Heath had been playing jazz since the 1940s, in the early days of bebop, and would become prominent enough to perform at the White House in 1993.
He recorded with everyone from Miles Davis and John Coltrane to Milt Jackson and Gil Evans worked on charts for Ray Charles and released several of his own albums.
In the 1970s, he helped found the Heath Brothers, who also featured brothers Percy Heath on bass and Albert “Tootie” Heath on drums.
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