Roy Haynes Last updated April 13, 2025 American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024)
Roy Haynes
Haynes performing in 1981
Birth name Roy Owen Haynes Born (1925-03-13 ) March 13, 1925 Boston, Massachusetts , U.S.Died November 12, 2024(2024-11-12) (aged 99) Nassau County, New York , U.S. Genres Jazz Occupation Musician Instrument Drums Years active 1942–2020 Labels Mainstream , EmArcy , Galaxy , Impulse! , New Jazz , Vogue , Pacific Jazz , Evidence , Marge
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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 . [ 1] [ 2] He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999. [ 3]
Career Haynes performing in 1964 Haynes was born in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston , to Gustavas and Edna Haynes, immigrants from Barbados . [ 4] 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 . [ 5]
Haynes made his professional debut in 1942 in Boston and began his full-time professional career in 1945. [ 6] From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young , [ 4] and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker 's quintet. [ 4] He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz . [ 4] From 1953 to 1958, he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan and recorded with her. [ 7] [ 8] In the 1950s he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle". [ 9] 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 . [ 10] Haynes led bands including the Hip Ensemble. [ 11]
A tribute song was recorded by Jim Keltner and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones , [ 12] and he appeared on stage with the Allman Brothers Band in 2006 [ 13] and Page McConnell of Phish in 2008. [ 14] "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." [ 15]
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 . [ 16] His last album, Roy-Alty , was released in 2011. [ 17]
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 [ 24] and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association. [ 25] WKCR -FM, New York, [ 26] surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23, 2009. [ 27] 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 . [ 8]
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. [ 1] In 1995, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts named Haynes as a NEA Jazz Master . [ 28] Haynes received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music (1991), [ 29] and the New England Conservatory of Music (2004), [ 30] as well as a Peabody Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University , in 2012. [ 31] He was inducted into the DownBeat magazine Hall of Fame in 2004. [ 32] 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. [ 33] 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. [ 34]
On December 22, 2010, Haynes was named a recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences , [ 35] and he received the award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 11, 2012. [ 36] In 2019, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Foundation of America at the 28th Annual Loft Party. [ 37]
Selected discography Busman's Holiday (EmArcy , 1955) [ 47] Jazz Abroad (Mercury , 1956) – recorded in 1953. split album with Quincy Jones . [ 48] We Three with Paul Chambers & Phineas Newborn (New Jazz , 1959) – recorded in 1958 [ 49] [ 50] [ 51] Just Us (New Jazz, 1960) [ 52] [ 53] Out of the Afternoon (Impulse! , 1962) [ 54] [ 55] Cracklin' with Booker Ervin (New Jazz, 1963) [ 56] [ 57] Cymbalism (New Jazz, 1963). [ 58] [ 59] Hip Ensemble (Mainstream , 1971) [ 60] [ 61] Senyah (Mainstream, 1972) [ 62] [ 63] Thank You Thank You (Galaxy , 1977) [ 64] [ 65] [ 66] [ 67] Vistalite (Galaxy, 1979) – recorded in 1977 [ 68] [ 69] [ 70] [ 71] Birds of a Feather: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (Dreyfus Jazz, 2001) – Grammy -nominated album [ 34] Whereas (Dreyfus Jazz, 2006) [ 72] Compilations Fountain of Youth (Dreyfus Jazz, 2004) – Grammy -nominated album [ 73] References 1 2 "Roy Haynes: Biography" . Blue Note Records . Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. 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