Jazz Articles about Justin Haynes

About Justin Haynes

Album Review

The Justin Haynes Jazz Collective: In a Funk

Read "In a Funk" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 30, 2022

In a Funk is the second recording as leader by Illinois-bred composer / arranger Justin Haynes, the first by his eighteen-member Jazz Collective. As was true of his debut album, Shoeless in Georgetown (2015), the most impressive cards are Haynes' splendid charts, ably performed by an ensemble of accomplished and purposeful musicians from the Chicago area. Haynes wrote five of the session's enticing themes and arranged all of them, raising the curtain in a hard-swinging groove with ...

Album Review

Justin Haynes: Shoeless in Georgetown

Read "Shoeless in Georgetown" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2015

Shoeless in Georgetown (there's a story there, but that's for another time) was recorded in April 2015 before an enthusiastic audience at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. The leader of the band is Justin Haynes. What is known is that Haynes, who holds a masters degree in Jazz Composition, teaches (music, of course) at schools in nearby Lewistown, and is a more than capable big-band composer / arranger (he wrote eight of the dozen selections on this tasteful debut album ...