Roy Haynes
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Roy Owen Haynes (born on March 13, 1925, in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer 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 to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. 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.
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[edit] Biography
Haynes began his full time professional career in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young, and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's quintet. He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray, and Stan Getz. From 1953 to 1958 he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan. Haynes went on to work with more experimental musicians, like saxophonists John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy, or pianists Chick Corea and Andrew Hill. He was inducted into the Down Beat Magazine Hall of Fame in 2004.
Haynes has recorded or performed with Gary Burton, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Henry Grimes, Christian McBride, Jackie McLean, Pat Metheny, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Horace Tapscott 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. He continues to perform world-wide and is booked well into 2008.
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 Magazine as one of the Best Boxed Sets of 2007, and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association.
His son Graham Haynes is a cornetist, and his grandson Marcus Gilmore and nephew Christopher Haynes are both drummers.
Haynes appeared in the game Grand Theft Auto IV, as the host of the jazz radio station, JNR.
Roy's influence on the Rock world has also been apparent in recent years, with a tribute song recorded by Jim Keltner and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones, and recent on-stage appearances with The Allman Brothers Band and Page McConnell of Phish.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Leader
- 1954 Busman's Holiday
- 1954 Roy Haynes Sextet
- 1956 Jazz Abroad
- 1958 We Three
- 1960 Just Us
- 1962 Out of the Afternoon
- 1963 Cracklin'
- 1963 Cymbalism
- 1964 People
- 1971 Hip Ensemble
- 1972 Equipoise
- 1973 Senyah
- 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)'
- 1998 Praise
- 2000 The Roy Haynes Trio
- 2000 Roy Haynes
- 2001 Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker' (with Roy Hargrove, Dave Holland and Kenny Garrett)'
- 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'
[edit] Sideman
- 1955: In the Land of Hi-Fi (Sarah Vaughan)
- 1960: Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy)
- 1961: Focus (Stan Getz)
- 1962: Domino (Roland Kirk)
- 1963: Black Fire (Andrew Hill)
- 1963: Smokestack (Andrew Hill)
- 1963: Newport '63 (John Coltarne)
- 1968: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Chick Corea)
- 1989: Question and Answer (Pat Metheny)
- 1998: Like Minds (Gary Burton)
