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Feel the bounce: Roy Haynes (13 March 1925–12 November 2024)

November 2024

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and encounters with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton and more