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Roy Owen Haynes (born on March 13 1925, in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

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) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 and bandleader. Haynes is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz and in his over 60-year career has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 to jazz fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
 and avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place....
. He has a highly expressive, personal style ("Snap Crackle" was a nickname given him in the 1950s) and is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates.

es began his full time professional career in 1945.






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Roy Owen Haynes (born on March 13 1925, in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 and bandleader. Haynes is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz and in his over 60-year career has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop
Bebop

Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s....
 to jazz fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
 and avant-garde jazz
Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. Avant-jazz often sounds very similar to free jazz, but differs in that, despite its distinct departure from traditional harmony, it has a predetermined structure over which improvisation may take place....
. He has a highly expressive, personal style ("Snap Crackle" was a nickname given him in the 1950s) and is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates.

Biography

Haynes began his full time professional career in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young
Lester Young

Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
, and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
's quintet. He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
 and saxophonists Wardell Gray
Wardell Gray

Wardell Gray was an U.S.A. jazz bebop tenor saxophone....
, and Stan Getz
Stan Getz

Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
. From 1953 to 1958 he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
. Haynes went on to work with more experimental musicians, like saxophonists John Coltrane
John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
 and Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy was an American jazz alto saxophone, Western concert flute #In jazz, and bass clarinetist.Dolphy was one of several groundbreaking jazz alto saxophone players to rise to prominence in the 1960s....
, or pianists Chick Corea
Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
 and Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill was an United States jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one the most important progenitors of Free jazz piano, though he is considered more mainstream jazz than Cecil Taylor, who is two years older than Hill....
.

Haynes has recorded or performed with Gary Burton
Gary Burton

Gary Burton is an United States jazz vibraphone.A true original on the vibraphone, Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the usual two-mallets....
, Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
, Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes

Henry Grimes is a jazz double bassist.After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970....
, Christian McBride
Christian McBride

Christian McBride is an United States jazz bassist. His father, Lee Smith, and his great uncle, Howard Cooper, are well known Philadelphia bassists who served as McBride's early mentors....
, Jackie McLean
Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City....
, Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
, Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
, Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
, Art Pepper
Art Pepper

Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an United States alto saxophonist....
, Horace Tapscott
Horace Tapscott

Horace Tapscott was an United States of America jazz piano and composer. He formed the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra in 1961 and led the ensemble through the 1990s....
 and many others. He has also led his own groups, some performing under the name Hip Ensemble. His most recent recordings as a leader are Fountain of Youth and Whereas,, both of which have been nominated for a Grammy Award
Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
. He continues to perform worldwide.

Legacy

His son Graham Haynes
Graham Haynes

Graham Haynes is an United States cornetist, trumpeter and composer.The son of noted drummer Roy Haynes, he began his career in jazz, but has branched out to explore other styles of music as well....
 is a cornetist, and his grandson Marcus Gilmore and nephew Christopher Haynes are both drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
mers.

Roy's influence on the Rock world has also been apparent in recent years, with a tribute song recorded by Jim Keltner
Jim Keltner

Jim Keltner is a studio musician drummer who has contributed to the work of many well-known musician....
 and Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. He is also a jazz bandleader and commercial artist. Watts is sometimes referred to as "The Wembley Whammer" when introduced by Mick Jagger during a concert....
 of The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, and recent on-stage appearances with The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
  and Page McConnell of Phish
Phish

eruses4|the band|deceptive internet practices|Phishing}}Phish is an United States band noted for their musical improvisation, extended jam sessions, exploration of music between genres, and their "fiercely loyal fans." Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until their hia...
.

He was inducted into the Down Beat
Down Beat

Down Beat is an United States magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years....
 Magazine Hall of Fame in 2004.

Haynes appeared in the game Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is a Nonlinear gameplay Action-adventure game video game developed by Rockstar North. It is the ninth game in the Grand Theft Auto ....
, as the host of the jazz radio station, JNR
Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack

The soundtrack of the game Grand Theft Auto IV, like the previous games in the Grand Theft Auto series, is mostly made up of in-game radio stations....
.

A 3 CD/1 DVD boxed set entitled A Life in Time - The Roy Haynes Story was released by Dreyfus Jazz in October 2007. The set chronicles highlights from Roy's career from 1949-2006, including recordings with Parker, Vaughan, Davis, Monk, Corea, Metheny and his own Hip Ensemble and Fountain of Youth quartet. The set was listed by The New Yorker
The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an United States magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans....
 Magazine as one of the Best Boxed Sets of 2007, and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association.

WKCR-FM, New York, surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming January 11-23, 2009.

Discography


As leader

  • 1954 Busman's Holiday
  • 1954 Roy Haynes Sextet
  • 1956 Jazz Abroad
  • 1958 We Three
  • 1960 Just Us
  • 1962 Out of the Afternoon
    Out of the Afternoon

    Out of the Afternoon is a album by Jazz drummer Roy Haynes, released in 1962 on Impulse! Records....
     (Impulse! Records
    Impulse! Records

    Impulse! Records was an American based jazz record label, originally launched in 1960 in music by Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records in New York City....
    )
  • 1963 Cracklin
  • 1963 Cymbalism
  • 1964 People
  • 1971 Hip Ensemble
  • 1972 Equipoise
  • 1973 Senyah
    Senyah

    Senayh is a 1972 album by jazz drummer Roy Haynes, released on Mainstream Records....
     (Mainstream Records
    Mainstream Records

    Mainstream Records is an American record label, which has released jazz, rock music, and soundtracks over the course of its history.It was founded in 1964 by Bob Shad, and in its early history reissued material from Commodore Records and Time Records in addition to some new jazz material....
    )
  • 1976 Sugar Roy
  • 1977 Vistalite
  • 1977 Thank You Thank You
  • 1978 Vistalite
  • 1979 Live at the Riverbop
  • 1986 True or False
  • 1992 Homecoming
  • 1992 When It's Haynes It Roars
  • 1994 My Shining Hour
  • 1994 Te Vou! (with Pat Metheny
    Pat Metheny

    Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
    )
  • 1998 Praise
  • 2000 The Roy Haynes Trio
  • 2000 Roy Haynes
  • 2001 Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (with Roy Hargrove
    Roy Hargrove

    Roy A. Hargrove is an United States jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002....
    , Dave Holland
    Dave Holland

    Dave Holland is a United Kingdom jazz bassist and composer who is a significant representative of avant-garde jazz....
     and Kenny Garrett
    Kenny Garrett

    Kenny Garrett is an United States post bop jazz Saxophone and flutist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 9, 1960. His father was a carpenter who played tenor saxophone as a hobby....
    )
  • 2003 Love Letters
  • 2004 Fountain of Youth
  • 2004 Quiet Fire (reissue of Thank You Thank You and Vistalite)
  • 2006 Whereas
  • 2007 A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story 3CD-1DVD Boxed Set, 1949-2006'


As sideman

  • 1955: In the Land of Hi-Fi
    In the Land of Hi-Fi (Sarah Vaughan album)

    In the Land of Hi-Fi is a 1955 album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan. It was recorded on October 26 and 27 1955, in New York City....
     (Sarah Vaughan)
  • 1957: Live at the Five Spot (Thelonious Monk)
  • 1960: Outward Bound
    Outward Bound (album)

    Outward Bound is a jazz album by Eric Dolphy, released in 1960 in music. It was his first album as leader, and is considerably less adventurous and more standardly beboppish than his later recordings, though there are unorthodox elements that point to what was to come....
     (Eric Dolphy)
  • 1961: Focus
    Focus (jazz album)

    Focus is a jazz album recorded in 1961, featuring Stan Getz on tenor saxophone. The album is a suite which was originally commissioned by Getz from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter....
     (Stan Getz)
  • 1961: The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
    The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy

    The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy is the third album by Steve Lacy and the first to be released on the Candid Records label in 1961. It features performances of tunes written by Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor and Miles Davis by Lacy, Charles Davis, John Ore and Roy Haynes....
     (Steve Lacy)
  • 1961: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
    The Blues and the Abstract Truth

    The Blues and the Abstract Truth is a jazz album by Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album. It features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy , Bill Evans , Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes....
     (Oliver Nelson)
  • 1962: Domino
    Domino (Rahsaan Roland Kirk album)

    Domino is an album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk recorded and released in 1962. The follow-up to We Free Kings, his 1961 breakthrough as a bandleader, it found him increasingly reliant on standards and cover versions....
     (Rahsaan Roland Kirk|Roland Kirk)
  • 1963: Black Fire
    Black Fire (album)

    Black Fire is an album by jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill, released on the Blue Note Records label. It was Hill's debut for the label....
     (Andrew Hill)
  • 1963: Smokestack
    Smokestack (album)

    Smokestack is a 1963 studio album by jazz pianist Andrew Hill released by the Blue Note Records label ....
     (Andrew Hill)
  • 1963: Newport '63
    Newport '63

    Newport '63 is a 1963 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
     (John Coltrane)
  • 1968: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
    Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

    Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is a highly influential jazz piano trio album by Chick Corea, released March 14, 1968.The musicians on this album are Corea , Miroslav Vitou? , and Roy Haynes ....
     (Chick Corea)
  • 1978: Birds and Ballads
    Birds and Ballads

    Birds and Ballads is a jazz album recorded under the leadership of Johnny Griffin, released in 1978.Players include Art Pepper, John Klemmer, Joe Farrell, Joe Henderson, Harold Land, and the rhythm section Of Stanley Cowell , Roy Haynes, Cecil McBee, John Heard....
     (Johnny Griffin)
  • 1983: Trio
    Trio

    A trio is a group of three identical or similar objects, or a grouping of three persons for a common purpose. In music*Trio , three people performing music in some way...
     (Chick Corea)
  • 1987: Live in Montreaux (Chick Corea)
  • 1989: Question and Answer
    Question and Answer (album)

    Question and Answer is a 1989 music album release by modern jazz artists Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Roy Haynes....
     (Pat Metheny)
  • 1991: Wanton Spirit (Kenny Barron)
  • 1998: Like Minds
    Like Minds (Gary Burton album)

    Like Minds is a 1998 jazz album by vibraphone Gary Burton with Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, and Dave Holland. The album won a Grammy Award in 1999 for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group....
     (Gary Burton)


External links

  • Roy Haynes Live at the Artists' Quarter
    Artists' Quarter

    The Artists' Quarter is a well known musician owned and operated jazz club in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The club opened in the early 1970s in South Minneapolis, Minnesota and moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1995....
  • Where As, 2006