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Roy Owen Haynes (March 13, 1925 – November 12, 2024) was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname " Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career spanning more than eight decades, he played swing music, bebop, jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He is considered to be a pioneer of jazz drumming.
Haynes led bands, including the Hip Ensemble. His albums Fountain of Youth and Whereas were nominated for a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999.
Haynes made his professional debut in 1942 in Boston and began his full-time professional career in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young, and from 1949 to 1952 was a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's quintet. He also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz. From 1953 to 1958, he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan and recorded with her. In the 1950s he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle". In the 1960s, he was a member of the John Coltrane Quartet, often working as a sub for drummer Elvin Jones. In 1990, he co-led the album Question and Answer with Pat Metheny. Haynes led bands including the Hip Ensemble.
A tribute song was recorded by Jim Keltner and Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones, and he appeared on stage with the Allman Brothers Band in 2006 and Page McConnell of Phish in 2008. "Age seems to have just passed him by," Watts observed. "He's eighty-three and in 2006 he was voted Best Contemporary Jazz Drummer in. He's amazing."
In 2008, Haynes voiced a DJ for the fictional classic jazz radio station, Jazz Nation Radio 108.5 on the open-world video game Grand Theft Auto IV. His last album, Roy-Alty, was released in 2011.
Haynes was known to celebrate his birthdays on stage and in later years at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. His 95th birthday celebration in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On November 12, 2024, following a short illness, Haynes died at age 99 in Nassau County, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island.
In 1994 Haynes was awarded the Danish Jazzpar Prize, and in 1996 the French government knighted him with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top literary and artistic honor. In 1995, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts named Haynes as a NEA Jazz Master. Haynes received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music (1991), and the New England Conservatory of Music (2004), as well as a Peabody Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, in 2012. He was inducted into the DownBeat magazine Hall of Fame in 2004. On October 9, 2010, he was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. In 2001, Haynes's album was nominated for the 44th Annual Grammy Awards as Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
On December 22, 2010, Haynes was named a recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and he received the award at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 11, 2012. In 2019, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Foundation of America at the 28th Annual Loft Party.
Awards and honors
A Life in Time – The Roy Haynes Story was named by The New Yorker magazine as one of the Best Boxed Sets of 2007 and was nominated for an award by the Jazz Journalist's Association. WKCR-FM, New York, surveyed Haynes's career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23, 2009. Esquire named Roy Haynes one of the best-dressed men in America in 1960, along with Fred Astaire, Miles Davis, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant.
1988 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group Chick Corea – Trio Music, Live in Europe 1989 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group McCoy Tyner – 1996 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group Kenny Barron – Wanton Spirit 1998 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group Chick Corea – Remembering Bud Powell 2000 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group Gary Burton – Like Minds 2001 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2002 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album 2002 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2003 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2004 DownBeat Critics Poll Hall of Fame 2004 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2005 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group Fountain of Youth 2005 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2007 Grammy Award Best Jazz Instrumental Solo "Hippidy Hop" in A Life in Time: The Roy Haynes Story 2007 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2008 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2009 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2010 DownBeat Critics Poll Drums 2012 Grammy Award Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Jazz Foundation of America Lifetime Achievement Award
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