Results for "Roy Haynes"

Love Letters

By Roy Haynes

Label: Eighty-Eights
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Best Thing For You; That Old Feeling; Afro Blue; Que Pasa?; How Deep Is The Ocean; Love Letters; My Shining Hour; Stompin' At The Savoy; Shades Of Senegal 2.

A Fireside Chat With Roy Haynes

by AAJ Staff
November 29, 2003

In the seventy-eight years Roy Haynes has 'walked the earth' (obscure biblical Samuel L. Jackson reference), computers went from not being invented to being the size of a cafeteria to fitting in the palm of the human hand. Ford introduced the Thunderbird, discontinued the Thunderbird, and reintroduced the new Thunderbird. New York City went from being ...

Roy Haynes: Love Letters

by Jerry D'Souza
April 7, 2003

At 77, Roy Haynes is agile, active and still draws a stellar cast of musicians. Those represented on this recording span a generation, and each one endows the music with his own vivid imprint. The division between the players as partners in the adventure of music draws on their strengths and their pliability within the working ...

Meet Roy Haynes

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2003

Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie have many things in common--one of which is Roy Haynes. The drummer has played with these and other jazz giants during his 77 years as a percussive powerhouse. He turns 78 on March 13th, and the jazz world celebrates at New York City's Blue Note for a ...

Social Skills

by AAJ Staff
February 3, 2003

We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...

Love Letters

By Roy Haynes

Label: Eighty-Eight's
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Best Thing For You; That Old Feeling; Afro Blue; Qué Pasa; How Deep Is The Ocean; Love Letters; My Shining Hour; Stompin’ At The Savoy; Shades Of Senegal 2;

Birds of a Feather- A Tribute to Charlie Parker

By Roy Haynes

Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2002
Track listing:

Diverse; Ah Leu Cha; April In Paris; Moose The Mooch; Now's The Time; Rocker; Barbados; Yardbird Suite; The Gypsy; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; What Is This Thing Called Love. (Total Time: 76:50).

Cymbalism

By Roy Haynes

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Modette/ I

Roy Haynes: Cymbalism

by David Rickert
December 17, 2002

Roy Haynes is an astonishingly prolific drummer who has played on more albums than most people will ever own in their entire life. Given his demand as a sideman, it comes as no surprise that his work as a leader has been relatively sparse. Cymbalism is one of the few projects he helmed in the sixties ...

Roy Haynes: Cymbalism

by Derek Taylor
December 2, 2002

Well into his septuagenarian years, Roy Haynes is still going strong as a leader behind his venerable drum kit. His sticks and brushes have stoked the fires on countless sessions from early work with Lester Young to later stints with likes of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. Only a handful of living drummers can claim such ...