Roy Haynes, a pioneering jazz drummer who went on to grow to be one of the vital recorded percussionists in music historical past, has died on the age of 99.
As per the New York Instances, Haynes’ daughter – Leslie Haynes-Gilmore – confirmed that the drummer handed away on Tuesday (Nov. 12) in Nassau County, N.Y. following a short sickness.
Born on Mar. 13, 1925, Haynes grew up within the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, starting his musical profession within the early Nineteen Forties and changing into a full-time skilled drummer in 1945. All through the last decade, he labored with the likes of saxophonist Lester Younger and carried out as a part of Charlie Parker’s quintet from 1949 to 1952.
Haynes was additionally provided a task in Duke Ellington’s band in 1952, finally turning it down as a consequence of a want of being in smaller bands which allowed extra room for musical expression.
Haynes’ recorded output is a powerful one, boasting appearances as a sideman for names as revered and acclaimed as Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Artwork Blakey, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, and numerous others earlier than the arrival of the Sixties. Alongside this work as a sideman, his output as a bandleader was equally prolific, along with his first file – Busman’s Vacation – arriving in 1954.
Haynes obtained his first Grammy Award nomination in 1988 within the Finest Jazz Instrumental Efficiency, Group for his work with Chick Corea. Over the subsequent 19 years, he would take house two awards from his eight nominations. In 2012, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys, with one other Lifetime Achievement Award coming from the Jazz Basis of America in 2019.
Haynes’ different awards included the the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French authorities in 1996, and honorary doctorares from each the Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory. In 2004, DownBeat journal inducted him into their Corridor of Fame, having being named of their readers and critics polls on 14 events.
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