Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer and group leader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 70 years has played in a wide range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He has a highly expressive, personal styleand is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth13 March 1925
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Every time I get on the bandstand, it's going to be something different. I want to do something that I've never done before.
There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.
You must own it to play it.
The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.