The prolific drummer appeared on scores of records across his seven-decade career, performing with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and countless others.
, a pioneering jazz drummer who went on to become one of the most recorded percussionists in music history, has died at the age of 99., Haynes’ daughter – Leslie Haynes-Gilmore – confirmed that the drummer passed away on Tuesday in Nassau County, N.Y. following a brief illness.
Born on Mar. 13, 1925, Haynes grew up in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning his musical career in the early 1940s and becoming a full-time professional drummer in 1945. Throughout the decade, he worked with the likes of saxophonist Lester Young and performed as part of Charlie Parker’s quintet from 1949 to 1952.
Haynes’ recorded output is an impressive one, boasting appearances as a sideman for names as revered and acclaimed as Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Ray Charles, Stan Getz, and countless others before the advent of the 1960s.
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