My Roy Haynes story: went to see him at a swanky club in NYC in the late 90s. His playing was unbelievably powerful, but there was a table full of loud finance types who were talking throughout the show. While Roy was announcing the band after an amazing, athletic set, one of the loud dudes—trying to make it about himself, like they often do--interrupted him to say "yeah yeah, what's your name?" "My name?" Roy answered slowly and deliberately, staring directly at the dude, "my name is Roy Haynes. I am the last of the bebop drummers. And I was born March 13, nineteen twenty-five. You THINK about that."
I still listen to his 2000’ish albums — Birds of a Feather (a tribute to Charlie Parker) with Roy Hargrove & Kenny Garrett and the Roy Haynes Trio with Danilo Perez and John Pattitucci — fairly frequently. I saw him play at Marcus Garvey Park around 20 years ago. My wife thought the heat and humidity was too much, and Roy, at more than twice our age, was playing drums and sounding great.
My Roy Haynes story: went to see him at a swanky club in NYC in the late 90s. His playing was unbelievably powerful, but there was a table full of loud finance types who were talking throughout the show. While Roy was announcing the band after an amazing, athletic set, one of the loud dudes—trying to make it about himself, like they often do--interrupted him to say "yeah yeah, what's your name?" "My name?" Roy answered slowly and deliberately, staring directly at the dude, "my name is Roy Haynes. I am the last of the bebop drummers. And I was born March 13, nineteen twenty-five. You THINK about that."
I still listen to his 2000’ish albums — Birds of a Feather (a tribute to Charlie Parker) with Roy Hargrove & Kenny Garrett and the Roy Haynes Trio with Danilo Perez and John Pattitucci — fairly frequently. I saw him play at Marcus Garvey Park around 20 years ago. My wife thought the heat and humidity was too much, and Roy, at more than twice our age, was playing drums and sounding great.
Maybe it was only 12 years ago!
That memoir seems like it's going to be incredible
I'm biased, but it IS incredible