Roy Haynes

Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox musical artist Roy Owen Haynes (March 13, 1925 – November 12, 2024) was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career spanning more than eight decades, he played swing, bebop, jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He is considered to be a pioneer of jazz drumming.

Haynes led bands, including the Hip Ensemble. His albums Fountain of Youth and Whereas were nominated for a Grammy Award.<ref name="bnr" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Haynes performing in 1964

Haynes was born on March 13, 1925, in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, to Gustavas and Edna Haynes, immigrants from Barbados.<ref name="LarkinJazz">Template:Cite book</ref> His younger brother, Michael E. Haynes, became an important leader in the African American community in Massachusetts, working with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, representing Roxbury in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and for forty years serving as pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church. King had been a member at the church while he pursued his doctoral degree at Boston University.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Haynes made his professional debut in 1942 in Boston and began his full-time professional career in 1945.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young,<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's quintet.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> From 1953 to 1958, he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan and recorded with her.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref name="smithsonian">Template:Cite web</ref> In the 1950s he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the 1960s, he was a member of the John Coltrane Quartet, often working as a sub for drummer Elvin Jones. In 1990, he co-led the album Question and Answer with Pat Metheny.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Haynes led bands including the Hip Ensemble.<ref name="ALLMUSIC">Template:Cite web</ref>

A tribute song was recorded by Jim Keltner and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and he appeared on stage with the Allman Brothers Band in 2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Page McConnell of Phish in 2008.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> "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."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Haynes, George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55, Newport, Rhode Island, August 2009

In 2008, Haynes voiced a DJ for the fictional classic jazz radio station, Jazz Nation Radio 108.5 on the open-world video game Grand Theft Auto IV.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His last album, Roy-Alty, was released in 2011.<ref name = Chinen>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

His son Graham Haynes is a cornetist; another son Craig Holiday Haynes and grandson Marcus Gilmore are both drummers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Haynes was known to celebrate his birthdays on stage and in later years at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His 95th birthday celebration in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

On November 12, 2024, following a short illness, Haynes died at age 99 in Nassau County, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island.<ref name = Chinen/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> WKCR-FM, New York,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23, 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="smithsonian" />

Roy Haynes (left) and Gunther Schuller, January 2008

In 1994 Haynes was awarded the Danish Jazzpar Prize, and in 1996 the French government knighted him with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top literary and artistic honor.<ref name="bnr">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1995, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts named Haynes as a NEA Jazz Master.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Haynes received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music (1991),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the New England Conservatory of Music (2004),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as a Peabody Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, in 2012.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was inducted into the DownBeat magazine Hall of Fame in 2004.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On October 9, 2010, he was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy">Template:Cite web</ref>

On December 22, 2010, Haynes was named a recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and he received the award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 11, 2012.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 2019, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Foundation of America at the 28th Annual Loft Party.<ref name="JFA2019">Template:Cite news</ref>Template:-

Year	Result	Award	Category	Work
1988	Template:Nominated	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	Chick Corea – Trio Music, Live in Europe
1989	Template:Won	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	McCoy Tyner – Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane
1996	Template:Nominated	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	Kenny Barron – Wanton Spirit
1998	Template:Nominated	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	Chick Corea – Remembering Bud Powell
2000	Template:Won	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	Gary Burton – Like Minds
2001	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2002	Template:Nominated	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Album<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker
2002	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2004	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Hall of Fame<ref name="hull_2004">Template:Cite web</ref>
2004	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref name="hull_2004" />
2005	Template:Nominated	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	Fountain of Youth
2005	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2007	Template:Nominated	Grammy Award	Best Jazz Instrumental Solo<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />	"Hippidy Hop" in A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story
2007	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2008	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2009	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010	Template:Won	DownBeat Critics Poll	Drums<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2012	Template:Won	Grammy Award	Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy" />
2019	Template:Won	Jazz Foundation of America	Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name="JFA2019" />

Selected discography

• Busman's Holiday (EmArcy, 1955)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Jazz Abroad (Mercury, 1956) – recorded in 1953. split album with Quincy Jones.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• We Three with Paul Chambers & Phineas Newborn (New Jazz, 1959) – recorded in 1958<ref name=Bb>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name=CBx>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>New Jazz Records discography Template:Webarchive accessed March 28, 2014</ref>
• Just Us (New Jazz, 1960)<ref>New Jazz Records discography Template:Webarchive accessed March 28, 2014</ref><ref>Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 28, 2014</ref>
• Out of the Afternoon (Impulse!, 1962)<ref name="CBxJul62">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="BbAug62">Template:Cite news</ref>
• Cracklin' with Booker Ervin (New Jazz, 1963)<ref name=CBJul63>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Roy Haynes discography on Jazzdisco.org. Accessed March 28, 2014</ref>
• Cymbalism (New Jazz, 1963).<ref>Roy Haynes discography Template:Webarchive accessed March 28, 2014</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Hip Ensemble (Mainstream, 1971)<ref>Roy Haynes discography accessed August 13, 2014</ref><ref>Wynn, R., Allmusic Review Template:Webarchive accessed August 13, 2014</ref>
• Senyah (Mainstream, 1972)<ref>Roy Haynes discography Template:Webarchive accessed August 13, 2014</ref><ref>Wynn, R., Allmusic Review Template:Webarchive accessed August 13, 2014</ref>
• Thank You Thank You (Galaxy, 1977)<ref>Jazzlists: Galaxy 5100 series discography Template:Webarchive accessed October 24, 2017</ref><ref>Galaxy Records catalog Template:Webarchive, accessed October 24, 2017</ref><ref>Roy Haynes catalog, Jazzdisco.org, accessed October 24, 2017</ref><ref>Both Sides Now: Galaxy Album Discography, Bsnpubs.com, accessed October 24, 2017</ref>
• Vistalite (Galaxy, 1979) – recorded in 1977<ref>Jazzlists: Galaxy 5100 series discography, Jazzlists.com, accessed October 24, 2017</ref><ref>Galaxy Records catalog, Jazzdisco.org, accessed October 24, 2017</ref><ref>Roy Haynes catalog Template:Webarchive, accessed October 24, 2017</ref><ref>Both Sides Now: Galaxy Album Discography Template:Webarchive, accessed October 24, 2017</ref>
• Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Dreyfus Jazz, 2001) – Grammy-nominated album<ref name="Roy Haynes Grammy"/>
• Whereas (Dreyfus Jazz, 2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Compilations

• Fountain of Youth (Dreyfus Jazz, 2004) – Grammy-nominated album<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

• "Roy Haynes" – at Drummerworld, with many images and video links
• "Roy Haynes The Greatest Drummer of All Time" – interview at jazzreview.com, March 2004
• "Roy Haynes Quartet/ Ed Thigpen Sextet Jazz Winnipeg Festival, June 25, 2005" – concert review at trinimansblog.blogspot.com
• "Roy Haynes" – interview for the NAMM Oral History Program, November 8, 2008
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