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      Roy Haynes, jazz drummer whose career spanned nine decades, dies aged 99

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 November 2024

    American drummer who began in 1940s swing and bebop scenes played with Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and dozens more

    Roy Haynes, a drummer who was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz’s swing and bebop eras, has died aged 99. His daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore said he had died following a short illness.

    Haynes’s energetic style, which also encompassed fusion and avant-garde jazz, earned him the respect of many contemporaries across a career that began in the mid-1940s. He played with artists including Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and dozens more.

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