November 13 – Roy Haynes, considered one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, who helped shape the bebop era and played with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, dies at 99 .

American media reported that Haynes’ death was announced by his daughter on Tuesday.

Born in Boston in 1925, Haynes began playing drums as a child.

“I always wanted to be a drummer,” he said in a 2008 interview with the website Jazzwax. As I remember.”

His career began in swing bands and he worked for Louis Armstrong shortly after moving to New York in 1945, before working with saxophonist Lester Young.

After touring with singer Sarah Vaughan in the 1950s, he played with Coltrane – who called him “one of the best drummers I ever worked with” – before setting up his own band in the late 1960s. Stan Getz and Eric Dolphy.

Haynes – whose nickname “Snap Crackle” reflects his energetic style of playing – stood out among drummers for his flexible approach to tempo, which influenced artists such as Tony Williams and Jack DeJohnette.

His voice was used for a jazz radio station presenter in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV and he performed an annual show at New York’s Blue Note club to mark his birthday in the ’90s.

Haynes’ death comes shortly after the death of another major American jazz artist who cut his teeth in the bebop era — saxophonist Lou Donaldson died Saturday at the age of 98.

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