12 Facts About Roy Haynes

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Roy Owen Haynes was born on March 13,1925 and is an American jazz drummer.

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Roy Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz.

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Roy Haynes was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999.

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Roy Haynes's son Graham Haynes is a cornetist; another son Craig Holiday Haynes and grandson Marcus Gilmore are both drummers.

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Roy Haynes made his professional debut in 1942 in his native Boston, and began his full-time professional career in 1945.

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Roy Haynes recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz.

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In 2008, Roy Haynes lent his voice to the open-world video game Grand Theft Auto IV, to voice himself as the DJ for the fictional classic jazz radio station, Jazz Nation Radio 108.5.

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Roy Haynes is known to celebrate his birthday on stage, in recent years at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.

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In 1994, Roy Haynes was awarded the Danish Jazzpar prize, and in 1996 the French government knighted him with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top literary and artistic honor.

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Roy Haynes received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music, and the New England Conservatory, as well as a Peabody Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, in 2012.

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Roy Haynes was inducted into the DownBeat magazine Hall of Fame in 2004.

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In 2019, Roy Haynes was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Foundation of America at the 28th Annual Loft Party.