Roy Haynes, one of the greatest drummers in jazz history, an iconic musician of the swing and bebop periods, has died at the age of 99. He was born in 1925 in Roxbury, Massachusetts and started playing drums as a child. “I always wanted to be a drummer. My brother had baguettes at home and these were the first baguettes I had. The feeling and the beat have been alive since I can remember,” he stated in an interview with JazzWax in 2008. Roy Haynes worked with jazz legends such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Mingus…and dozens more. His career began in swing bands and he collaborated with Louis Armstrong after arriving in New York in 1945. This was followed by his collaboration with saxophonist Lester Young. After touring for five years with Sarah Vaughan in the 1950s, he played with John Coltrane, who said of Roy Haynes that […]
Source: News Beast
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