The drummer explored a range of musical styles, from swing and bebop to jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. "Every time I read something about myself it usually says 'bebop,'" Haynes told PAS in a ...

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Throughout his seven-decade career, the prolific drummer performed with Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Sarah Vaughan and more Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer and band leader whose skill and versatility led to performances with such diverse artists as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny over the course ...

Roy Haynes was born in Boston on March 13, 1925 and started his musical career in 1942 as a largely self-taught drummer, according to specialist publication Drummerworld. He went on to work with ...

Born in 1925 in Boston, Haynes began to play the drums as a child. "I always wanted to be a drummer," he said in an interview with website JazzWax in 2008. "My brother had drumsticks around the ...

Pete Hegseth, 44, accidentally hit ceremonial drummer Jeff Prosperie while taking part in an axe-throwing competition on the Fox and Friends show on 2015. Footage shows the axe hitting Prosperie, ...

Veteran jazz drummer Roy Haynes died in Nassau County, New York Tuesday at 99, his daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore said. Haynes-Gilmore told The New York Times that her father passed away on the ...

Roy Haynes, the prolific and proficient jazz drummer who recorded alongside Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, and Sonny Rollins, has died at the age of 99. Haynes’ daughter Leslie Haynes ...

Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer who performed with legends like Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan, died Tuesday at the age of 99. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Leslie ...

9 at age 98. On Tuesday, Donaldson’s friend and fellow jazz great, drummer Roy Haynes, died at 99. No cause of death was given for either musician. Born in Badin, N.C., in 1926, Donaldson ...

Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer who ignited the rhythmic fire on landmark performances by Charlie Parker, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, and inspired countless other musicians by expanding the musical ...