Search - Artist/Band: Roy Haynes

• Name: Roy Haynes
• Birthday: 03/13/1925
• Birth Place: Roxbury, MA
• Decades Active: 1940,1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Neo-Bop
• Moods: Confident, Elegant, Passionate, Sophisticated, Ambitious, Boisterous, Exuberant

Title	Release
Te Vou/Praise WA	08/05/2008
The Island WA	06/26/2007
Quiet Fire WA	09/14/2004
Fountain of Youth	02/24/2004
Love Letters WA	04/15/2003
The 1954 Paris Sessions WA	11/06/2001
Tribute to Charlie Parker	09/21/2001
Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker WA	09/11/2001
Roy Haynes WA	08/08/2000
The Roy Haynes Trio WA	04/18/2000
Praise WA	09/15/1998
My Shining Hour WA	03/10/1994
Te Vou! WA	1994
When It's Haynes It Roars WA	07/24/1992
Homecoming WA	06/27/1992
True or False	10/30/1986
Equipoise WA	1972
Cymbalism	09/10/1963
Cracklin'	04/10/1963
Out of the Afternoon	05/16/1962
Just Us	07/05/1960
We Three WA	11/14/1958
Jazz Abroad WA	1956
Roy Haynes Sextet WA	1954

A veteran drummer long overshadowed by others, but finally in the 1990s gaining recognition for his talents and versatility, Roy Haynes has been a major player for half a century. He worked early on with the Sabby Lewis big band, Frankie Newton, Luis Russell (1945-1947), and Lester Young (1947-1949). After some engagements with Kai Winding, Haynes was a member of the Charlie Parker Quintet (1949-1952); he also recorded during this era with Bud Powell, Wardell Gray, and Stan Getz. Haynes toured the world with Sarah Vaughan (1953-1958); played with Thelonious Monk in 1958; led his own group; and gigged with George Shearing, Lennie Tristano, Eric Dolphy, and Getz (1961). He was Elvin Jones' occasional substitute with John Coltrane's classic quartet during 1961-1965, toured with Getz (1965-1967), and was with Gary Burton (1967-1968). In addition to touring with Chick Corea (1981 and 1984) and Pat Metheny (1989-1990), Haynes has led his own Hip Ensemble on and off during the past several decades. When one considers that he has also gigged with Miles Davis, Art Pepper, Horace Tapscott, and Dizzy Gillespie, it is fair to say that Haynes has played with about everyone. He led dates for EmArcy and Swing (both in 1954), New Jazz (1958 and 1960), Impulse (a 1962 quartet album with Roland Kirk), Pacific Jazz, Mainstream, Galaxy, Dreyfus, Evidence, and Storyville. In 1994, Haynes was awarded the Danish Jazzpar prize, and two years later, he received the prestigious French Chevalier des l'Ordres Artes et des Lettres. In the late '90s, Haynes formed a trio with pianist Danilo Perez and bassist John Pattitucci, and they released their debut album, The Roy Haynes Trio Featuring Danilo Perez & John Pattitucci, in early 2000 on Verve. Haynes' son Graham is an excellent cornetist. Haynes paid tribute to Charlie Parker in 2001 with Birds of a Feather, his fourth release for the Dreyfus Jazz label, which was subsequently nominated for a Grammy in 2002; Fountain of Youth followed two years later. Also released in 2004, Quiet Fire compiled two of his prior releases for Galaxy (1977's Thank You Thank You and 1978's Vistalite) into one back-to-back record. Whereas appeared in mid-2006, and it earned Haynes a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide