Editing Percy Heath (section)

{{Short description|American jazz bassist (1923–2005)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Percy Heath
| image            = Percy Heath.jpg
| caption          = Heath in New York City, 1977
| background       = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_place      = {{nowrap|[[Wilmington, North Carolina]], U.S.}}
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1923|4|30}}
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2005|4|28|1923|4|30}}
| death_place      = [[Southampton, New York]], U.S.
| genre            = {{hlist|[[Jazz]]|[[cool jazz]]}}
| occupation       = Musician
| instrument       = Double bass
| years_active     = 1940s–2003
| past_member_of   = {{hlist|[[The Modern Jazz Quartet]]|[[Heath Brothers]]}}
| module           = {{Infobox person
| embed            = yes
| relatives        = {{ubl|[[Jimmy Heath]] (brother)|[[Albert Heath]] (brother)}}
}}
}}

'''Percy Heath''' (April 30, 1923<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=196}}</ref> &ndash; April 28, 2005)<ref name="AMG"/> was an American [[jazz]] bassist, brother of saxophonist [[Jimmy Heath]] and drummer [[Albert Heath]], with whom he formed the [[Heath Brothers]] in 1975. Heath played with the [[Modern Jazz Quartet]] throughout their long history and also worked with [[Miles Davis]], [[Dizzy Gillespie]], [[Charlie Parker]], [[Wes Montgomery]], [[Thelonious Monk]] and [[Lee Konitz]].