Roy Haynes, who has died aged 99, was one of jazz’s greatest drummers, a maestro of bebop with the crisp, rapid snare and ...

“Bird” was Charlie Parker, and the course of Donaldson’s ... and was more interested in baseball until the gospel music he heard in church induced him to learn the clarinet, despite being ...

The prolific drummer appeared on scores of records across his seven-decade career, performing with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, and countless others. By Tyler Jenke Roy Haynes, a ...