Roy Haynes 85th Birthday

Blue Note Jazz Club

Wed, Mar 17 @ 8:00 PM
Wed, Mar 17 @ 10:30 PM
Thu, Mar 18 @ 8:00 PM
(additional performances)

Roy Haynes 85th Birthday
FEATURING:
Roy Haynes, drums
Other musicians, TBA

Special guests:
3/17
Kenny Garrett, alto saxophone
Bill Cosby, MC

3/18
Roy Hargrove, trumpet
Christian McBride, bass

3/19 - 3/20
Chick Corea, piano & keyboards

3/21
TBA

interested in jazz ever since he can remember. Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie Christian inflected guitarist Tom Brown, bandleader Sabby Lewis, and Kansas City blues-shout alto saxophonist Pete Brown, before getting a call in the summer of 1945 to join legendary bandleader Luis Russell (responsible for much of Louis Armstrong's musical backing from 1929 to 1933) to play for the dancers at New York's legendary Savoy Ballroom. When not traveling with Russell, the young drummer spent much time on Manhattan's 52nd Street and uptown in Minton's, the legendary incubator of bebop, soaking up the scene.

Haynes was Lester Young's drummer from 1947 to 1949, worked with Bud Powell and Miles Davis in '49, became Charlie Parker's drummer of choice from 1949 to 1953, toured the world with Sarah Vaughan from 1954 to 1959, did numerous extended gigs with Thelonious Monk in 1959-60, made eight recordings with Eric Dolphy in 1960-61, worked extensively with Stan Getz from 1961 to 1965, played and recorded with the John Coltrane Quartet from 1963 to 1965, has collaborated with Chick Corea since 1968, and with Pat Metheny during the '90s. Metheny was featured on Haynes' previous Dreyfus release Te Vou! (voted by NAIRD as Best Contemporary Jazz Record of 1996). He's been an active bandleader from the late '50s to the present, featuring artists in performance and on recordings like Phineas Newborn, Booker Ervin, Roland Kirk, George Adams, Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Ralph Moore and Donald Harrison. A perpetual top three drummer in the Downbeat Readers Poll Awards, he won the Best Drummer honors in 1996 (and many years since), and in that year received the prestigious French Chevalier des l'Ordres Artes et des Lettres.

Dreyfus Jazz proudly released Roy Haynes� �Birds of a Feather,� a tribute to the immortal Charlie "Bird" Parker, in September 2001. The father of the bebop movement, Bird turned the jazz world upside down in the early 1940s with his immense technical facility and grand breaking improvisational ideas. For Haynes� fourth recording for the label, the eminent drummer and bandleader takes us back to the era during which he made his first major impact playing alongside Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and the other legendary bop progenitors. The album was nominated for a Grammy in 2002.

Dreyfus Jazz has just released Roy's latest masterpiece, "Fountain of Youth," a fiery live record featuring his youthful working band. Inspired by each other's deft musicianship, the album is a testament to awe inspring career of the eternally youthful Roy Haynes.

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ticket prices:	$20.00 - $35.00
venue:	Blue Note Jazz Club
venue address:	131 W. 3rd St, New York, NY 10012
venue bio:	"The Blue Note, one of the world�s finest jazz clubs, located in the heart of New York�s Greenwich Village is synonymous not only with great jazz in an intimate setting, but also critically-acclaimed food, top-notch service and a really cool gift shop."
members' rating of venue:	N/R
directions:	Blue Note New York is located on West 3rd street, between 6th Avenue (Avenue Of The Americas) and MacDougal street. The Subway lines that stop right next to our doors are the A, E, C, F, Q, B, and D.
full schedule:	Wed, Mar 17 @ 8:00 PM Wed, Mar 17 @ 10:30 PM Thu, Mar 18 @ 8:00 PM Thu, Mar 18 @ 10:30 PM Fri, Mar 19 @ 8:00 PM Fri, Mar 19 @ 10:30 PM Sat, Mar 20 @ 8:00 PM Sat, Mar 20 @ 10:30 PM Sun, Mar 21 @ 8:00 PM Sun, Mar 21 @ 10:30 PM