Albert “Tootie” Heath

drums, percussion, arranger

Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Anders Elmén (Moon)
Jimmy Heath
Dexter Gordon
Tete Montoliu
Nina Simone (American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement)

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Anders Elmén drums Almost Like Being in Love, Alone Together, Aquarius, Bag's Groove, Blue 'N Boogie, Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup, Decision, Fatback, Fatback (long version), Fatback (short version), God Bless the Child, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, In Walked Horace, Laura, Love Letters, Minor Mist, Misterioso, Mohawk, My Old Flame, Now's the Time, Pennies From Heaven, Really Livin', Red Cross, Shutterbug, Sidewinder, Speak Low, Stardust, The Nearness of You, Tune Up, Turnpike, Walkin', What Is This Thing Called Love
Jimmy Heath drums, percussion A Sound for Sore Ears, Alkebu-Lan (Land of the Blacks), All the Things You Are, Angel Man, Bells and Horns, Bruh' Slim, Cloak and Dagger, Dew and Mud, Down Shift, Funny Time, Gap Sealer, Gemini, Gingerbread Box, Goodbye, Heritage Hum, I Should Care, Invitation, Lowland Lullaby, Make Someone Happy, Nutty, On the Trail, Projects, Prospecting, Six Steps, Swamp Seed, The More I See You, The Quota, Thinking of You, Vanity, When Sunny Gets Blue
Dexter Gordon drums Antabus, Blues Walk, Body and Soul, Boston Bernie, But Not for Me, Candlelight Lady, Come Rain or Come Shine, Devilette, Doxy, For All We Know, Fried Bananas, I Guess I'll Have to Hang My Tears Out to Dry, Lady Bird, Like Someone in Love, Love for Sale, Meditation, Misty, Montmartre, Sonnymoon for Two, Stablemates, Stanley the Steamer, Sticky Wicket, Strollin', Take the "A" Train, The Apartment, The Rainbow People, There Will Never Be Another You, Those Were the Days, Wee-Dot
Tete Montoliu drums A Child is Born, A Nightingale Sang at Berkeley Square, Au Privave, Autumn in New York, Bag's Groove, Blue Bossa, Blues for Perla, Body and Soul, D & E, Doxy, Easy Living, El meu carrer, Falling in Love With Love, I Remember April, Jo Vull Que M'Acariciis, Jo Vull Que M'acariciis, Joy Spring, Lady Bird, My Old Flame, No Greater Love, Old Folks, Scrapple from the Apple, Steeplechase, Sweet Georgia Fame, Tune Up, We'll Be Together Again, When Lights Are Low, Willow Weep for Me
Nina Simone drums African Mailman, Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, Central Park Blues, Cotton Eyed Joe, Don’t Smoke in Bed, Exactly Like You, Fine and Mellow, For All We Know, Good Bait, He Needs Me, He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, I Loves You Porgy, I Loves You, Porgy, Little Girl Blue, Love Me or Leave Me, Mood Indigo, My Baby Just Cares for Me, My Baby Just Cares for Me (special extended version), Plain Gold Ring, Return Home, Summertime, Summertime (instrumental), Summertime (vocal), The Other Woman, Under the Lowest, Wild Is the Wind, You Can Have Him, You’ll Never Walk Alone
Clifford Jordan drums Au Privave, Black Betty, Black Girl, De Gray Goose, Dick's Holler, Doug's Prelude, Doug’s Prelude (A), Goodnight Irene, Hot Water, Jolly o the Ransom, Last Night When We Were Young, Lush Life, Moon-A-Tic, Silver City Bound, Spellbound, Take This Hammer, The Highest Mountain, Toy, Vienna, Vienna (A), Yellow Gal
Dissident Pachyderm arranger, drums Dew and Mud, For Someone I Love, Give Me That Old Religion, Gravy Blues, I Just Can’t Fool Myself, I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song, Just for a Thrill, Just for a Thrill (alternate take), Monterey Mist, Much in Common, Nancy, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Stella by Starlight, Stella by Starlight (alternate take 2), Stella by Starlight (alternate take), Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, What Kind of Fool Am I, When the Saints Go Marching In
Dena DeRose drums Be My Love, Beautiful Love, Blue Skies, Come Rain or Come Shine, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, Gone With the Wind, How Deep Is the Ocean, How Long Has This Been Going on?, The Ruby and the Pearl, The Wish, Time After Time, What's New?, When Lights Are Low, Where or When
Johnny Griffin drums 63rd Street Theme, Blues for Harvey, Hush-A-Bye, Lonely One, Olive Refractions, Playmates, Sophisticated Lady, The Man I Love, The Masquerade Is Over, The Message, Venus and the Moon, Wee
Mal Waldron drums All About Us, All The Way, All the Way, C'Est Formidable, C'est Formidable, Champs Elysees, Champs-Élysées, Ciao!, With A Song In My Heart, With a Song in My Heart, You Stepped Out Of A Dream, You Stepped Out of a Dream
Zerowe drums Bag’s Groove, Bakai, Bye-Ya, Con Alma, Concorde, Everything Must Change, I Will Survive, Memories of You, Pentatonic Etude, Reets and I, Speak Low, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Herbie Hancock drums Fat Albert Rotunda, Fat Mama, Firewater, Firewater (alternate take), He Who Lives in Fear, I Have a Dream, Jessica, Oh! Oh! Here He Comes, Promise of the Sun, Tell Me a Bedtime Story, The Prisoner, The Prisoner (alternate take)
Harold Bronson drums A Felicidade, A Stranger in Paradise, All Blues, Blues Inn, Dark Beauty, In Your Own Sweet Way, It Could Happen to You, Love Letters, Run Away, Silk Bossa, Summer Night
Kenny Dorham drums 'Round Midnight, Confirmation, Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me, Mamacita, Night Watch, The Fox, The Theme, Tin Tin Deo, Trompeta Toccata
Baylou drums Autumn Leaves, Dat Dere, Dat Dere (theme), Goodbye, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, Popsy, So Tired, Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise, They Didn't Believe Me
Joe Pass drums (I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance With You, Bay City Blues, Bluesology, I Remember You, J.P. Blues, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Poinciana, The Song Is You
Louisa Rose Allen drums Big "P", Dat Dere, Mona's Mood, My Ideal, Nails, Old Fashioned Fun, On Green Dolphin Street, The Picture of Heath
Wes Montgomery drums Airegin, D-Natural Blues, Four on Six, Gone With the Wind, In Your Own Sweet Way, Mr. Walker (Renie), Polka Dots and Moonbeams, West Coast Blues
Hayley Beth drums Blue Minor, Cool Struttin', Don't Blame Me, Donna Lee, Embraceable You, Farmer's Market, I Remember You, Star Eyes
Nat Adderley drums Accents, Blue Brass Groove, Blue Concept, Israel, Little Miss, Moving, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, What Next?
Milt Jackson Quintet drums All Members, Bags Of Blue, Gemini, Gerri's Blues, Ignunt Oil, Little Girl Blue, Time After Time, Willow Weep For Me
Haedes drums Dew and Mud, For Someone I Love, I Just Can't Fool Myself, In a Crowd, Lazy Theme, Lined With a Groove, Monterey Mist, Now Hear My Meaning
Tal Farlow drums Everything Happens to Me, I Can't Get Started, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good), Prelude to a Kiss, When Lights Are Low, When Your Lover Has Gone, Who Cares?, You Stepped Out of a Dream
Hanspeter Huber drums Blue Silver, Everything's Changed, Habiba, Inner Voice, Mapenzi, Rapture, Tres Senderos
Anthony Braxton drums Body and Soul, Donna Lee, Duet, Half Nelson, Marshmallow, My Funny Valentine, What's New?
Art Farmer drums Blue Bossa, Born to Be Blue, Eronel, I Mean You, If You Could See Me Now, Rapture, Straight No Chaser
Percy Heath drums A Love Song, Century Rag, Django, Hanna's Mood, No More Weary Blues, Suite For Pop, Watergate Blues
Blue Mitchell drums A Sure Thing, Blue on Blue, Gone With the Wind, Hip to It, Hootie Blues, I Can't Get Started, West Coast Blues
Claude Williamson Trio drums Corcovado, Embranceable You, Pretender, Robbin's Nest, South of the Border, Star Crossed Lovers, West of the Sun
Ronnie Cuber drums Misty, Prince Albert, Rifftide, Samba D'Orfeo, Star Eyes, Sudwest Funk, Tin Tin Deo
John Coltrane drums Chronic Blues, I Hear a Rhapsody, Straight Street, Time Was, Violets for Your Furs, While My Lady Sleeps
Kenny Barron drums Blue Monk, Here's That Rainy Day, In the Meantime, Peruvian Blue, The Procession, Two Areas
Cedar Walton drums Easy Walker, I Should Care, My Cherie Amour, Pensativa, Quiet Dawn, Sundown Express
Bobby Timmons drums Chun-King, Gettin' It Together, I Could Have Danced All Night, O Grande Amor, Someone to Watch Over Me, Walking Death
The Tete Montoliu Trio drums Body And Soul, Giant Steps, Hot House, I Remember Clifford, Solar, Theme For Ernie
The Jazztet drums 'Round Midnight, Darn That Dream, Farmer's Market, Junction, November Afternoon, Shutterbug
Ted Curson drums Greasy as a Porkchop, Quicksand, Spiderlegs, Sugar 'n' Spice, Tears for Dolphy, Typical Ted
Wendy Poor drums Embraceable You, Hot House, Nostalgia, Si Si, Variations on a Blues by Bird, Wail
Cecil Payne drums Flying Fish (B), Follow Me (B), Girl, You Got A Home (B), Martin Luther King, Jr./I Know Love (B), Slide Hampton (B)
Alyn Shipton drums A Little Ditty, Going South, Jim Dog, Juggin' Around, Sermonette
Asdik Ağa drums Bakara, Dunia, Kamila, Kawaida, Maulana
Pat Metheny drums All The Things You Are, Arthurdoc, Guitar Improvisation, Move to the Groove, Sassy Samba
Don Patterson drums Blue 'N Boogie, Muse Blues, Skylark, These Are Soulful Days, Whistle While You Work
Ranch Ghost drums Fat Lady (alternate), Scourn', Scourn' (alternate), Seens of Sin (alternate)
Melvin Rhyne drums Barefoot Sunday Blues, Blue Farouq, Shoo Shoo Baby, Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Dreams After Death drums Fat Lady, Peaches & Cream, Seeds of Sin, That's Right
Dave Pike drums A Time for Love, Dig, Ghost of a Chance, Grand Street
Eddie Harris drums Chicago Serenade, Illusionary Dreams, Sonnymoon For Two
McCoy Tyner drums A Night in Tunisia, Autumn Leaves, When Sunny Gets Blue
Wesla Whitfield drums Lovers and Losers, Moon and Sand, While We're Young
Amenthis percussion A Notion, I Fall in Love too Easily, Little Train
Cannonball Adderley drums I Remember You, I Remember You (alternate take), Poor Butterfly
Charlie Mariano drums Pretty Little Nieda, The Shout, To Taiho
Indra Lesmana drums Dancin' Shoe, For Earth and Heaven
The John Coltrane Sextet drums Bakai
Donald Byrd drums All Members
Friedrich Gulda percussion Little Suite
Greg Shakar drums Move to the Groove
Influx drums Speak Low
Monica Zetterlund drums Visan om mina vänner