Roy Haynes: living jazz history

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Drummer Roy Haynes brings his Fountain of Youth Band to the Stanford Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 14. There are a million reasons why you shouldn’t miss this show, not the least of which being that the music will be fantastic. But now we’ll just focus on one question: Why wouldn’t you want to see a performance by the guy who had extended musical associations with most of the greatest artists in jazz history? Check out the list below, which is by no means exhaustive. And keep in mind he was with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, and John Coltrane for extended periods of time.

You can read our interview with Roy in the program notes for his show by clicking here. 

A selected list of great jazz artists Roy Haynes has played with:

  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Nat Adderley
  • Gene Ammons
  • Gato Barbieri
  • Kenny Barron
  • Count Basie
  • Art Blakey
  • Bob Brookmeyer
  • Clifford Brown
  • Dave Brubeck
  • Kenny Burrell
  • Gary Burton
  • Jaki Byard
  • Ron Carter
  • Ray Charles
  • Alice Coltrane
  • John Coltrane
  • Chick Corea
  • Larry Coryell
  • Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
  • Miles Davis
  • Blossom Dearie
  • Eric Dolphy
  • Kevin Eubanks
  • Bill Evans
  • Art Farmer
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Tommy Flanagan
  • Red Garland
  • Stan Getz
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Paul Gonsalves
  • Stéphane Grappelli
  • Wardell Gray
  • Bennie Green
  • Johnny Griffin
  • Al Haig
  • Lionel Hampton
  • Donald Harrison
  • Hampton Hawes
  • Joe Henderson
  • Andrew Hill
  • Billie Holiday
  • Freddie Hubbard
  • Milt Jackson
  • Illinois Jacquet
  • J.J. Johnson
  • Etta Jones
  • Hank Jones
  • Quincy Jones
  • Clifford Jordan
  • Duke Jordan
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  • Roland Kirk
  • Lee Konitz
  • Steve Lacy
  • Booker Little
  • Jackie McLean
  • Pat Metheny
  • Charles Mingus
  • The Modern Jazz Quartet
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Frank Morgan
  • Gerry Mulligan
  • Fats Navarro
  • Oliver Nelson
  • Phineas Newborn, Jr.
  • Anita O’Day
  • Charlie Parker
  • John Patitucci
  • Art Pepper
  • Michel Petrucciani
  • Bud Powell
  • Red Rodney
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Pharoah Sanders
  • Shirley Scott
  • George Shearing
  • Archie Shepp
  • Martial Solal
  • Sonny Stitt
  • Horace Tapscott
  • Clark Terry
  • Cal Tjader
  • Lennie Tristano
  • McCoy Tyner
  • Sarah Vaughan
  • Frank Wess
  • Randy Weston
  • Cootie Williams
  • Mary Lou Williams
  • Claude Williamson
  • Kai Winding
  • Phil Woods
  • Lester Young