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19 November 2024

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Roy Haynes drums played into his 90s – Phantom Dancer

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Roy Haynes, one of the greatest and most influential drummers in the history of jazz died 12 November, aged 99. He performed into his 80s. He’s your Phantom Dancer feature artist this week.

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ROY

Roy Haynes career spanned seven decades. He was part of every major development in modern jazz, from bebop on, without significantly altering his style.

His clear, locomotive drumming earned him the moniker, Snap Crackle, in the 1950s.

Roy Haynes took to drums early, taking lessons with Herbert Wright, who had been a member of James Reese Europe’s band the 369th Infantry Hellfighters. He admired, Jo Jones, the drummer with Count Basie.

In his teens he worked steadily around Boston as a teenager. A job with the Luis Russell Orchestra took him to New York.

He became an in-demand sideman and jam session regular. he sat in at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem where the young proponents of bebop experimented. He worked with Lester Young from 1947 to 1949 before inheriting Max Roach’s drum chair in the Charlie Parker Quartet as a top drawer bop drummer.

Haynes drummed for a broad an array of jazz legends from Lester Young to Pat Metheny. He was briefly but prominently associated with the singer Sarah Vaughan, and with some of bebop’s chief pioneers, notably the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and the pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

He played on dozens of albums, including many regarded as classics, among them Eric Dolphy’s “Outward Bound” (1960), Oliver Nelson’s “The Blues and the Abstract Truth” (1961), Stan Getz’s “Focus” (1962) and Chick Corea’s “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968).

As a band leader, Haynes made the highly regarded albums, “We Three,” a 1958 trio session with the pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. and the bassist Paul Chambers, and “Out of the Afternoon,” a 1962 date with Roland Kirk on reeds, Tommy Flanagan on piano and Henry Grimes on bass.

In the 1970s he led a series of  bands including the Hip Ensemble, playing the funkier side of fusion..

In 2000, he released “The Roy Haynes Trio” with pianist Danilo Pérez and bassist John Patitucci.

Around 2010 he formed the Fountain of Youth band with players in their 20s and 30s. That’s the group on his last album, “Roy-Alty” in 2011.

STYLE

“Roy Haynes was one of the first jazz drummers to make expressive use of his left foot on the hi-hat pedal, breaking away from a metronomic stomp on beats two and four. He brought a similar freedom of purpose to his snare and bass drum, with punchy accents that suggested a continuing conversation set against the pulse of his ride cymbal,” according to the New York Obituary, which continues…

“His flexible articulation of tempo, and his departure from the rigid framework of four- and eight-bar phrases, set a precedent adopted by countless others — from Tony Williams and Jack DeJohnette, both born in the 1940s, to the generation that includes his grandson Marcus Gilmore, born in 1986.”

Roy Haynes loved beautiful clothes. In 1960, he was named one of the best-dressed men in America by Esquire magazine, on a list that also included Fred Astaire, Cary Grant and Miles Davis.

POST-BOP

In 1953, Roy Haynes started a five-year stint as drummer for Sarah Vaughan in 1953.

He played with a Thelonius Monk quartet at the Five Spot Café in Manhattan, which produced a couple of live albums.

During the 1960s, he played an integral role in the development of experimental post-bop.

He played on Chick Corea’s “Now He Sings,” one of the defining modern piano trio albums; the alto saxophonist Jackie McLean’s “Destination … Out!” (1964) and “It’s Time!” (1965); the pianist Andrew Hill’s “Black Fire (1964) and “Smokestack” (1966); and “Reaching Fourth” (1963), by the pianist McCoy Tyner.

From time to time he played alongside Tyner in the John Coltrane Quartet, serving as a backup whenever the band’s regular drummer, Elvin Jones, was unable to perform. His most prominent turn in the Coltrane band was at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival.

1970s

Roy Haynes played on several jazz-rock albums.
The Hip Ensemble, which he introduced with an album by the same name in 1971, branched out into fusion, earning him younger fans.
The style he favored most in his working bands was a driving, harmonically open variant on post-bop.

1990s

In 1990 he played on the Pat Metheny album “Question and Answer” in 1990. Roy Haynes then featured Metheny on his own album, “Te-Vou!”.

He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 1995.

In 2000, he shared his second Grammy Award, for the album “Like Minds”. (He had won his first Grammy in 1988 playing in the McCoy Tyner album “Blues for Coltrane”.

He played in the 2010 Jazz at Lincoln Center tribute to himself.

In 2011 and 2019 he received lifetime achievement awards from the Recording Academy in 2011 and the Jazz Foundation of America respectively.

And in 2011 he appeared on the “Late Show With David Letterman” with his Fountain of Youth band.

19 November PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer
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12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
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5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am
5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 – 3:30am
3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 – 4am
4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 – 4am
2MIA Griffith Monday 3 – 4am
2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4am
2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 – 4am
2YYY Young Monday 3 – 4am
7RPH Hobart Monday 3 – 4pm
3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 – 7pm
7MID Oatlands Monday 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm
2MCE Bathurst Thursday 9 – 10am
1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am
and Sunday 11pm
Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2
2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm
5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm
6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am
Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am
Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm
7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am
3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm
2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm

Set 1
Duke Ellington Orchestra (not played last week)
Take the A-Train + The Lady of the Lavender Mist
Duke Ellington Orchestra
Meadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca
KHJ Mutual-Don Lee Los Angeles
Sep 1947
Hi Ya Sue
Duke Ellington Orchestra
Meadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca
KHJ Mutual-Don Lee Los Angeles
Sep 1947
How Blue the NightDuke Ellington Orchestra
Meadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca
KHJ Mutual-Don Lee Los Angeles
Sep 1947
I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So + CloseDuke Ellington OrchestraMeadowbrook Gardens
Culver City Ca
KHJ Mutual-Don Lee Los Angeles
Sep 1947
Set 2
Ben Selvin
Theme + Bend Down Sister
Ben Selvin Orchestra
Skinners’ Radio Transcription
1931
What are You Thinking About?
Ben Selvin Orchestra
Skinners’ Radio Transcription
1931
I Called it Love
Ben Selvin Orchestra
Skinners’ Radio Transcription
1931
Slow But Sure + Theme
Ben Selvin Orchestra
Skinners’ Radio Transcription
1931
Set 3
Roy Haynes
Intro + Blue’n’BoogieRoy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
31 Mar 1951
AnthropologyRoy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
31 Mar 1951
RepetitionRoy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker and Strings‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
7 Apr 1951
They Can’t Take That Away From MeRoy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker and Strings‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WJZ ABC NYC
7 Apr 1951
Set 4
Art Van Damme
Theme + It Had to Be You
Art van Damme Quartet
Radio Transcription
1950
The Very Thought of You
Art van Damme Quartet (voc) Louise Carlisle
Radio Transcription
1950
Theme + September in the Rain
Art van Damme Quartet
Radio Transcription
1950
I Found a New Baby
Art van Damme Quartet (voc) Louise Carlisle
Radio Transcription
1950
Sing Something Simple
Art van Damme Quartet
Radio Transcription
1950
Theme + Halleluja!
Art van Damme Quartet
Radio Transcription
1950
Set 5
Woody Herman
Mabel, Mabel
Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) Woody Herman‘Wildroot Creme Oil Program’
Eastwood Gardens
WXYZ ABC Detroit
26 Apr 1946
All Through the Day
Woody Herman Orchestra (voc) The Blue Flames
‘Wildroot Creme Oil Program’
Eastwood Gardens
WXYZ ABC Detroit
26 Apr 1946
Wild Root + Blue Flame (theme)
Woody Herman Orchestra
‘Wildroot Creme Oil Program’
Eastwood Gardens
WXYZ ABC Detroit
26 Apr 1946
Set 6
Jimmy Dorsey
Contrasts (theme) + King Porter Stomp
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Spotlight Bands
AFRS Re-broadcast
11 Feb 1945
Twilight Time
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Teddy Walters
Spotlight Bands
AFRS Re-broadcast
11 Feb 1945
Saturday Night
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Patti Thomas
Spotlight Bands
AFRS Re-broadcast
11 Feb 1945
I Should Care + Jumpin’ Jehosephat
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Teddy Walters
Spotlight Bands
AFRS Re-broadcast
11 Feb 1945
Set 7
Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher (theme) + Rhythm Cocktail
Cab Calloway Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
16 Jul 1946
Kabla
Cab Calloway Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
16 Jul 1946
Lammar’s Boogie
Cab Calloway Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
16 Jul 1946
Coastin’ with JC
Cab Calloway Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Cafe Zanzibar NYC
AFRS Re-broadcast
16 Jul 1946
Set 8
Oscar Pettiford
The Gentle Art of Love (theme) + Aw C’monOscar Pettiford Orchestra‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WABC ABC NYC
Jun 1957
I Remember CliffordOscar Pettiford Orchestra
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WABC ABC NYC
Jun 1957
No So SleepyOscar Pettiford Orchestra‘Symphony Sid Show’
Birdland
WABC ABC NYC
Jun 1957
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