Tag Archives: Akira Tana

b. 14 March 1952, San Jose, California, USA. A self-taught drummer, Tana performed semi-professionally while still at university. He went to Harvard College or university where he obtained a qualification in East Asian Research/Sociology. Then studied at the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music, also acquiring personal tuition from percussionists …

Jimmy, Percy, and Tootie Heath teamed up in 1975 to create the Heath Brothers. Until after that, bassist Percy have been active with the present day Jazz Quartet, but with the group in “pension” (briefly as it proved), all three brothers had been free to get together. Originally a quartet …