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Roy Haynes, Pioneering and Prolific Jazz Drummer, Dead at 99
Roy Haynes, the prolific and proficient jazz drummer who recorded alongside Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins, has died at the age of 99.
A cutting-edge pioneer in the genre — equally adept at swing and bebop, avant-garde, and fusion — Haynes appeared on countless jazz classics over a career that began in the early 1940s and didn’t wind down until the drummer was in his mid-nineties. The Fifties found “Snap Crackle,” Haynes’ nickname, performing alongside Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, fellow drummer Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, and George Shearing, as well as launching his own career as bandleader with 1954’s Busman’s Holiday. The following decade, Haynes played a trio of renowned Eric Dolphy albums ( Outward Bound, Out There, and Far Cry), John Coltrane’s Impressions, Jackie McLean’s Destination… Out!, Andrew Hill’s Black Fire, and LPs by Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, and Roland Kirk.
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