Via Larry Appelbaum @ Let’s Cool One: today is the 50th birthday of one of the greatest albums in jazz, Oliver Nelson’s Blues and the Abstract Truth. Like a lot of other people, the first […]
Category: Roy Haynes
The John Lewis Show
I’m hoping to finish up an ed piece and fire it off to Drum! Magazine before some afternoon lessons, so until I can post something more substantive, enjoy these clips of the John Lewis Show […]
Roy Haynes Grammy
Via AllAboutJazz.com: this is nice to see– lifetime achievement award to one of the greatest musicians living.
Princess Wee-Wee
In his 2008 interview by Marc Myers at JazzWax, Roy Haynes talks about Lester Young and his reaction to Roy’s first 20″ bass drum: Roy Haynes: [Lester] was a very humorous guy. He had his […]