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Roy Haynes, Pioneering Jazz Drummer, Dies Aged 99
The prolific drummer appeared on scores of records across his seven-decade career, performing with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and countless others.
The prolific drummer appeared on scores of records across his seven-decade career, performing with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, and countless others. 13, 1925, Haynes grew up in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning his musical career in the early 1940s and becoming a full-time professional drummer in 1945. Haynes’ recorded output is an impressive one, boasting appearances as a sideman for names as revered and acclaimed as Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, and countless others before the advent of the 1960s.
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