Roy Haynes trading fours with Kenny Burrell on Well, You Needn’t, from Burrell’s 1959 album A Night At The Vanguard. They’re playing trio, with Richard Davis on bass. The whole record is really cool— nobody’s […]
Category: Roy Haynes
RIP Roy Haynes
The last old master drummer has died, Roy Haynes, at age 99. He was the last of the “magnificent seven” (coined by Lenny White): Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Philly Joe Jones, […]
Very occasional quote of the day: religion
“This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don’t perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.” – Roy Haynes h/t Sheet Music Library
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues – 03
Part 3 of Roy Haynes playing Bad News Blues on his record Cracklin’. Booker Ervin’s tenor solo includes a chorus of stop time, two choruses of blowing, then he trades choruses with Roy. This is […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues – 02
Part 2 of Roy Haynes playing Bad News Blues on his record Cracklin’. This is Ron Matthews’s piano solo, starting at 1:51— four choruses, 48 bars. Things like this are a little bit of an […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues – 01
Roy Haynes playing Bad News Blues, from his album Cracklin’. We’ll be seeing more of this one, there’s a lot of interest in this recording. Playing a tune like this some people might simplify and […]
WSRHWL addendum!
A couple of pages to go with my wild, sprawling, scattershot world’s shortest Roy Haynes waltz lesson. That contains a lot of raw concepts for someone who is listening to a lot of Roy Haynes to […]
Daily best music in the world: 80s McCoy and Roy
I’ve probably posted this before, I don’t care. A record forgotten by everyone, released on Impulse! about the time I was going to school in LA, at USC. I listened to this a lot, and […]
Daily best music in the world: Roy Haynes with Charlie Parker LIVE
This is pretty amazing. Rough sounding live tape of Charlie Parker in 1951, with Roy Haynes on drums… sounding basically like any other subsequent time in his career. Incredibly modern playing for 1951. h/t to […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes 8s
Hot on the heels of that “too perfect” post, here’s a great example of what I’m talking about in terms of playing with an edge: Roy Haynes trading 8s with Chick Corea on Rhythm-a-ning, from […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes feature
UPDATE: I have extreme quality readers. Jim in the comments pointed out a bunch of errors in this, and figured out the insane Mystery Lick on the second page. The corrected pdf is up now. New […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – It’s Time – drum solo
Here’s Roy Haynes’s drum solo from the title track of a Jackie McLean record we visited a few months ago, It’s Time. The solo begins at 5:31. Pull up my Cliché Control page and start […]