Roy Haynes

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Roy Haynes
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Roy Haynes, George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 (2009) — Newport, Rhode Island

Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer.[1] He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz drumming. "Snap Crackle" was a nickname given to him in the 1950s.[2]

Haynes has led bands such as the Hip Ensemble.

Grammy Award.[5][6] He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999.[7] His son Graham Haynes is a cornetist; another son Craig Holiday Haynes and grandson Marcus Gilmore are both drummers.[8]

Career

Haynes performing in San Francisco, 1981

Haynes was born in the

Twelfth Baptist Church, where King had been a member while he pursued his doctoral degree at Boston University.[10]

Haynes made his professional debut in 1942 in his native Boston, and began his full-time professional career in 1945.[11] From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young,[9] and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's quintet.[9] He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz.[9] From 1953 to 1958, he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan and recorded with her.[12][13]

A tribute song was recorded by Jim Keltner and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones,[14] and he appeared on stage with the Allman Brothers Band in 2006[15] and Page McConnell of Phish in 2008.[16] "Age seems to have just passed him by," Watts observed. "He's eighty-three and in 2006 he was voted Best Contemporary Jazz Drummer [in Modern Drummer magazine's readers' poll]. He's amazing."[17]

In 2008, Haynes lent his voice to the open-world video game Grand Theft Auto IV, to voice himself as the DJ for the fictional classic jazz radio station, Jazz Nation Radio 108.5.[18]

Haynes is known to celebrate his birthday on stage, in recent years at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.[19] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, his 95th birthday celebration was cancelled.[20]

Awards and honors

A Life in Time – The Roy Haynes Story was named by The New Yorker magazine as one of the Best Boxed Sets of 2007[21] and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association.[22]

WKCR-FM, New York,[23] surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23, 2009.[24]

Esquire named Roy Haynes one of the best-dressed men in America in 1960, along with Fred Astaire, Miles Davis, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant.[13]

In 1994, Haynes was awarded the Danish Jazzpar prize, and in 1996 the French government knighted him with the

Washington, DC.[30]

In 2001, Haynes's album Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker was nominated for the 44th Annual Grammy Awards as Best Jazz Instrumental Album.[31] On December 22, 2010, he was named a recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,[32] and he received the award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 11, 2012.[33]

In 2019, Haynes was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Foundation of America at the 28th Annual Loft Party.[34]

Year Result Award Category Work
1988 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group[31]
Trio Music Live in Europe
1989 Won Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group[31] McCoy Tyner – Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane
1996 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group[31] Kenny Barron – Wanton Spirit
1998 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group[31] Chick Corea – Remembering Bud Powell
2000 Won Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group[31] Gary Burton – Like Minds
2001 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[35]
2001 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Drums
2002 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album[31] Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker
2002 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[36]
2002 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Drums
2003 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[37]
2003 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Drums
2004 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Hall of Fame[38]
2004 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[38]
2004 Won DownBeat Readers Poll Drums
2005 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group[31] Fountain of Youth
2005 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[39]
2007 Nominated Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Solo[31] "Hippidy Hop" in A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story
2007 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[40]
2008 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[41]
2009 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[42]
2010 Won DownBeat Critics Poll Drums[43]
2012 Won Grammy Award Lifetime Achievement Award[31]
2019 Won Jazz Foundation of America Lifetime Achievement Award[34]

Discography

Roy Haynes (left) and Gunther Schuller in 2008

As leader/co-leader

Compilations

  • Fountain of Youth (Dreyfus Jazz, 2004) – Grammy-nominated album
  • Quiet Fire (Galaxy, 2004) – reissue of Thank You Thank You (1977) and Vistalite (1977)
  • A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story (Dreyfus Jazz, 2007)[3CD + DVD-Video] – Grammy-nominated track included

As sideman

In recorded year order

References

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  2. ^ Kahn, Ashley (May 9, 2019). "Roy Haynes: Snap Crackle". Jazz Times. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
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  12. ^ Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (1999). "Haynes, Roy Owen". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 306.
  13. ^ a b Stephenson, Sam (December 2003). "Jazzed About Roy Haynes". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  14. ^ "Charlie Watts". Rosebudus.com. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  15. ^ "Hittin' the Note - 2006". Archived from the original on 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
  16. ^ "Roy Haynes with Page McConnell and Jon Fishman from Phish - photographic image". 13 August 2008. Archived from the original on 13 August 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
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  20. ^ Shteamer, Hank (March 13, 2020). "Flashback: Roy Haynes Journeys From Free Jazz to Bebop at the White House". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
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  36. ^ "2002 Down Beat Critics Poll". downbeat.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  37. ^ "BMI Dominates Downbeat Critics Poll". bmi.com. June 26, 2003. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
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