Jazz legend performed alongside fellow greats like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and countless more over career that spanned nearly 80 years Roy HaynesRedferns , the prolific and proficient drummer who recorded alongside Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, and Sonny Rollins, has died at the age of 99. Haynes’ daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore confirmed her father’s death Tuesday to , adding he died following a short illness. A cutting-edge pioneer in the genre — equally adept at swing and bebop, avant-garde, and fusion — Haynes appeared on countless jazz classics over a career that began in the early 1940s and didn’t wind down until the drummer was in his mid-nineties.
The Boston-born Haynes’ career began with stints performing in bands led by Lester Young, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, and pianist Bud Powell, with Haynes featuring on the latter’s 1952 jazz classic . The Fifties found “Snap Crackle,” Haynes’ nickname, performing alongside Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, fellow drummer Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, and George Shearing, as well as launching his own career as bandleader with 1954’s . Two years later, Haynes released 1956’s , a split LP with Quincy Jones, who died last week; Jones would also enlist Haynes for the sessions for Ray Charles’ 1961 album .
The following decade, Haynes played a trio of renowned Eric Dolphy albums ( , , and ), John Coltrane’s , Jackie McLean’s , Andrew Hill�.