Roy Haynes
{{Short description|American jazz drummer and group leader (1925–2024)}}
{{Other people}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Roy Haynes
| image = Roy Haynes drummer (cropped).jpg
| caption = Haynes performing in 1981
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name = Roy Owen Haynes
| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|3|13}}
| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|11|12|1925|3|13}}
| death_place = Nassau County, New York, U.S.
| genre = Jazz
| instrument = Drums
| occupation = Musician
| years_active = 1942–2020
| label = Mainstream, EmArcy, Galaxy, Impulse!, New Jazz, Vogue, Pacific Jazz, Evidence, Marge
| website =
}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://empac.rpi.edu/2008/roy-haynes-fountain-youth-band-featuring-jaleel-shaw-saxophones-martin-bejerano-piano-david-wong |title=Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band |website=Rensselaer |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=December 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073748/https://empac.rpi.edu/2008/roy-haynes-fountain-youth-band-featuring-jaleel-shaw-saxophones-martin-bejerano-piano-david-wong |url-status=live }} He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999.{{cite web |url=http://www.moderndrummer.com/modern-drummers-readers-poll-archive/#_ |title=Modern Drummer's Readers Poll Archive, 1979–2014 |work=Modern Drummer |access-date=August 10, 2015 |archive-date=August 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821222429/http://www.moderndrummer.com/modern-drummers-readers-poll-archive/#_ |url-status=live }}
Career
File:Roy Haynes, 1964 (48127653736).jpg
Haynes was born in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, to Gustavas and Edna Haynes, immigrants from Barbados.{{cite book|title=The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=195}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/13/the-rev-michael-haynes-dies/CJdNXYsBbMSz0RVJs8j8aJ/story.html |title=The Rev. Michael Haynes, who made an impact across the state, dies at 92 |last=Levenson |first=Michael |date=September 13, 2019 |website=Boston Globe |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=May 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518131007/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/13/the-rev-michael-haynes-dies/CJdNXYsBbMSz0RVJs8j8aJ/story.html |url-status=live }}
Haynes made his professional debut in 1942 in Boston and began his full-time professional career in 1945.{{cite web |url=https://usa.yamaha.com/artists/r/roy-haynes.html |title=Roy Haynes |website=Yamaha |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=October 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027063437/https://usa.yamaha.com/artists/r/roy-haynes.html |url-status=live }} From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young, and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's quintet. He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz. From 1953 to 1958, he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan and recorded with her.{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Feather |first1=Leonard |last2=Gitler |first2=Ira |title=Haynes, Roy Owen |encyclopedia=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |pages=306}}{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/jazzed-about-roy-haynes-95383611 |title=Jazzed About Roy Haynes |last=Stephenson |first=Sam |date=December 2003 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=March 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313145334/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/jazzed-about-roy-haynes-95383611/ |url-status=live }} In the 1950s he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle".{{cite web |url=https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/roy-haynes-snap-crackle |title=Roy Haynes: Snap Crackle |last=Kahn |first=Ashley |date=May 9, 2019 |website=Jazz Times |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310144559/https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/roy-haynes-snap-crackle/ |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-19 |title=In Memoriam: Roy Haynes, 1925–2024 |url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-roy-haynes-1925-2024 |access-date=2024-11-23 |website=downbeat.com |language=en}} Haynes led bands including the Hip Ensemble.{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/roy-haynes-mn0000290464/biography |title=Roy Haynes |website=AllMusic |access-date=July 28, 2021}}
A tribute song was recorded by Jim Keltner and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones,{{cite web |url=http://www.rosebudus.com/watts/CWJKProject.html |title=Charlie Watts |publisher=Rosebudus.com |access-date=October 18, 2011 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927160232/http://www.rosebudus.com/watts/CWJKProject.html |url-status=live }} and he appeared on stage with the Allman Brothers Band in 2006{{cite web |url=http://www.hittinthenote.com/cart/c-104-wanee-festival-2006.aspx |title=Hittin' the Note − 2006 |access-date=February 20, 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820000135/http://hittinthenote.com/cart/c-104-wanee-festival-2006.aspx |archive-date=August 20, 2008}} and Page McConnell of Phish in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dreyfusrecords.com/Roy_Haynes_with_McConnell_&_Fishman_from_Phish_5_7_08.jpg|title=Roy Haynes with Page McConnell and Jon Fishman from Phish − photographic image|date=August 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813154126/http://www.dreyfusrecords.com/Roy_Haynes_with_McConnell_%26_Fishman_from_Phish_5_7_08.jpg|access-date=July 28, 2021|archive-date=August 13, 2008|url-status=live}} "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
File:Roy Haynes at Newport Jazz Festival.jpg'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.{{Cite web |date=May 21, 2008 |title=Roy Haynes Hits The Video Game World, Grand Theft Auto Style |url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/roy-haynes-hits-the-video-game-world-grand-theft-auto-style |access-date=November 16, 2024 |website=downbeat.com |language=en}} His last album, Roy-Alty, was released in 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/music/roy-haynes-dead.html|title=Roy Haynes, a Giant of Jazz Drumming, Is Dead at 99|work=The New York Times|date=November 12, 2024|accessdate=November 12, 2024|last = Chinen|first = Nate|url-access = limited}}
Personal life
His son Graham Haynes is a cornetist; another son Craig Holiday Haynes and grandson Marcus Gilmore are both drummers.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2013/02/06/171249897/when-your-grandfather-is-the-greatest-living-jazz-drummer |title=When Your Grandfather Is The Greatest Living Jazz Drummer |last=Beener |first=Angelika |date=February 6, 2013 |website=NPR |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=May 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518051212/https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2013/02/06/171249897/when-your-grandfather-is-the-greatest-living-jazz-drummer |url-status=live }}
Haynes was known to celebrate his birthdays on stage and in later years at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.{{cite web |url=https://drummerworld.com/drummers/Roy_Haynes.html |title=Roy Haynes |website=DrummerWorld |access-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121145311/https://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Roy_Haynes.html |url-status=live }} His 95th birthday celebration in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roy-haynes-free-jazz-bebop-white-house-965383 |title=Flashback: Roy Haynes Journeys From Free Jazz to Bebop at the White House |last=Shteamer |first=Hank |date=March 13, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-date=March 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311135057/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/roy-haynes-free-jazz-bebop-white-house-965383/ |url-status=live }}
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.{{cite news |last1=Ratliff |first1=Ben |title=Roy Haynes, pioneering modern jazz drummer, has died at 99 |url=https://www.wunc.org/2024-11-12/roy-haynes-pioneering-modern-jazz-drummer-has-died-at-99 |access-date=November 12, 2024 |publisher=WUNC |date=November 12, 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://downbeat.com/?/news/detail/yuletide-music-roundup/P2 |title=The Liberation of Eric Reed |access-date=November 14, 2024 |archive-date=May 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521104858/https://downbeat.com/?/news/detail/yuletide-music-roundup/P2 |url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/13/roy-haynes-jazz-drummer-dies-aged | title=Roy Haynes, jazz drummer whose career spanned nine decades, dies aged 99 | newspaper=The Guardian | last1=Beaumont-Thomas | first1=Ben | last2=Bugel | first2=Safi }}
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{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/26/top-cd-boxed-sets-of-2007|title=Top CD Boxed Sets of 2007|date=November 18, 2007|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=July 28, 2021}} and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzhouse.org/jazzawards2008.html |title=Jazz Journalists Association: Jazz Awards: 2008 |website=JazzHouse |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228204111/http://www.jazzhouse.org/jazzawards2008.html |url-status=live }} WKCR-FM, New York,{{cite web |url=http://www.wkcr.org/ |title=WKCR 89.9FM NY |publisher=Wkcr.org |access-date=October 18, 2011 |archive-date=April 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070414070005/http://www.wkcr.org/ |url-status=live }} surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23, 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/?p=8329 |title=Roy Haynes marathon coming soon on WKCR |publisher=Time Out New York − The Tony Blog |access-date=October 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223164216/http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/tonyblog/?p=8329 |archive-date=December 23, 2008}} 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.
Image:Roy Haynes (left) and Gunther Schuller.jpg, 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bluenote.com/artist/roy-haynes |title=Roy Haynes: Biography |website=Blue Note Records |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=May 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525065639/https://www.bluenote.com/artist/roy-haynes/ |url-status=live }} In 1995, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts named Haynes as a NEA Jazz Master.{{cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/roy-haynes |title=Roy Haynes |website=NEA |access-date=March 13, 2023}} Haynes received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music (1991),{{cite web |url=https://college.berklee.edu/about/honorary-degree-recipients |title=Honorary Degree Recipients |website=Berklee College of Music |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017194307/https://college.berklee.edu/about/honorary-degree-recipients |url-status=live }} and the New England Conservatory of Music (2004),{{cite web |url=https://necmusic.edu/honorary-doctor-music |title=NEC Honorary Doctor of Music Degree |website=New England Conservatory |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204191921/https://necmusic.edu/honorary-doctor-music |url-status=live }} as well as a Peabody Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, in 2012.{{cite web |url=https://peabody.jhu.edu/explore-peabody/our-history/george-peabody-medal |title=George Peabody Medal Recipients |website=Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=February 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223160545/https://peabody.jhu.edu/explore-peabody/our-history/george-peabody-medal/ |url-status=live }} He was inducted into the DownBeat magazine Hall of Fame in 2004.{{cite web |url=https://downbeat.com/archives/artist/roy-haynes |title=Roy Haynes |website=Downbeat |access-date=March 10, 2022}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.midatlanticarts.org/past-awardees/the-bny-mellon-jazz-2010-living-legacy-award-recipient-sponsored-by-bny-mellon |title=Roy Haynes – 2010 Living Legacy Awardee |website=Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524190614/https://www.midatlanticarts.org/past-awardees/the-bny-mellon-jazz-2010-living-legacy-award-recipient-sponsored-by-bny-mellon/ |url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/roy-haynes/3195 |title=Roy Haynes |website=Recording Academy |date=November 23, 2020 |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116120908/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/roy-haynes/3195 |url-status=live }}
On December 22, 2010, Haynes was named a recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences,{{cite web |title=The Recording Academy Announces Special Merit Award Honorees |work=Grammy.com News |url=http://www.grammy.com/news/the-recording-academy-announces-special-merit-award-honorees |access-date=December 22, 2010 |archive-date=February 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211033508/https://www.grammy.com/news/the-recording-academy-announces-special-merit-award-honorees |url-status=live }} and he received the award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 11, 2012.{{cite magazine |date=January 7, 2012 |title=Grammy Week |magazine=Billboard |pages=53}} In 2019, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Foundation of America at the 28th Annual Loft Party.{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Stephanie|url=https://downbeat.com/news/detail/jazz-foundation-of-america-raises-475k-at-annual-loft-party|title=Jazz Foundation of America Honors Roy Haynes, Raises $475K at Annual Loft Party|date=October 23, 2019|work=DownBeat}}{{-}}