{"id":4539,"date":"2013-03-14T22:14:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2013-03-15T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:11:27","slug":"roy-haynes-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/03\/roy-haynes-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Haynes, 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busy in my continuing battle with the tech monster you see on the right. He won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t leave my<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Tech-Gremlin-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4540\" alt=\"Tech-Gremlin 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Tech-Gremlin-2.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a> computer system alone. I was so occupied with his depredations that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize until the day was all but gone that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Roy-Haynes-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4541\" alt=\"Roy Haynes 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Roy-Haynes-3.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Roy-Haynes-3.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Roy-Haynes-3-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Roy-Haynes-3-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>Roy Haynes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 88th birthday. It would be wrong to let it go by without celebrating. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do that by toasting Roy with a glass of Layer Cake Shiraz and by sharing with you one of his solos from Jack Kleinsinger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Highlights in Jazz concerts. This was New York, 1973. Mr. Haynes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 colleagues were Howard McGhee and Jimmy Owens, trumpets; Cecil Payne, baritone saxophone; Lee Konitz, alto saxophone; Ted Dunbar, guitar; and Richard Davis, bass. There is video disturbance partway through, but the sound is fine. Roy introduces the tune.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kXWHd0K9OA?rel=0\" height=\"355\" width=\"440\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Around the same time in the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc70s, I dropped by the old Half Note one night after the newscast to hear Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Roy was playing drums. He had a solo the equal of the one we just heard, and longer. He came off the stand soaking wet, grinning. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Feel better?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said. His smile broadened and he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I felt good to START with.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He usually does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busy in my continuing battle with the tech monster you see on the right. He won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t leave my computer system alone. I was so occupied with his depredations that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize until the day was all but gone that this is Roy Haynes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 88th birthday. 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