Tootie Heath played with so many jazz giants that it would be a short list of those he didn’t perform or record with. He was the drummer on “Coltrane”, John Coltrane’s first recording as a leader. He also played on Nina Simone’s first album, “Little Girl Blue”. The list goes on to include Wes Montgomery, Art Farmer, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Hancock, among many others. Tootie was also a devoted educator. For more than twenty years he taught at the Stanford Jazz Camp West and numerous​​