19 November 2024
(Until 19 November)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.
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.
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
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 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #683 | ||
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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 Night | Duke Ellington Orchestra | Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City Ca KHJ Mutual-Don Lee Los Angeles Sep 1947 |
I’m Just a Lucky So-and-So + Close | Duke Ellington Orchestra | Meadowbrook 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’Boogie | Roy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 31 Mar 1951 |
Anthropology | Roy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 31 Mar 1951 |
Repetition | Roy Haynes (drums) Charlie Parker and Strings | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 7 Apr 1951 |
They Can’t Take That Away From Me | Roy 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’mon | Oscar Pettiford Orchestra | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC Jun 1957 |
I Remember Clifford | Oscar Pettiford Orchestra | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC Jun 1957 |
No So Sleepy | Oscar Pettiford Orchestra | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WABC ABC NYC Jun 1957 |