happy 89th Roy Haynes ...

... a living legend who happened to achieve the greatest possible ride cymbal sound right here on this Chick Corea record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rxeyzyKVw

playing with the best players in jazz from the 1940s to present day ..... not many can say that

many more bad man Roy

Love Roy! You can tell by my signature below. Roy is the reason i have Flat Rides.
Happy Birthday Roy! Here's to eternal youth!
 
Happy Birthday, Roy Haynes!

Most important living drummer? I think probably. I saw Roy last year and a couple years before that, performing with his Fountain Of Youth group in Detroit. He still sounds great and man, can that cat dress! Clean as a broke dick dog....
 
... a living legend who happened to achieve the greatest possible ride cymbal sound right here on this Chick Corea record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rxeyzyKVw

That cymbal sound had such a huge influence on me. I think the whole ECM catalog owes a debt to that recording just for the cymbal sound.

Roy has always been crazy progressive. Not many cats played with Bird during the bop era, Trane during the post-bop era and then also did the whole third stream thing. Roy did not fear the avant garde, he embraced it.

Lots to learn from this great master, and it goes way beyond just the notes he played.
 
I can't get enough of that ride tone.
 
First time I saw him,was on Ed Sullivan,and there was something.."special" about him.Lots of joy in his playing.The guy can still bring it..old school,and musical.Happt B day Roy.

Steve B
 
I wonder how/if he is celebrating it.
 
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