Jazz drummer Roy Haynes, pictured in 2000 at the Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, died Tuesday. (Jim Cooper / Associated Press) Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer and band leader whose skill and ...

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation. Roy ...

The jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette has died. He was 83 years old. For decades, he collaborated with artists like Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and Alice Coltrane. And he became a composer and band leader ...

Albert “Tootie” Heath, a self-taught jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and Nina Simone and later teamed with his brothers on several recordings, died on April 3. He was 88. Heath died at a ...

This article was republished with permission of The Birmingham Times. As Caleb “Twizz” Heath settled behind the drum kit at the Carver Theatre in downtown Birmingham, the world around him seemed to ...

Roy Haynes, the pioneering jazz drummer who performed with legends like Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sarah Vaughan, died Tuesday at the age of 99. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Leslie ...

Jack DeJohnette, 83 years old, the drummer of the "Keith Jarrett Trio," died on the 26th at his home in New York State, U.S. Born in 1942 in Chicago, DeJohnette joined trumpeter Miles Davis’s band in ...

Roy Haynes was one of the last giants of modern jazz who was present at its birth. His eight decades of drumming spanned from the swing and bebop eras to the avant-garde. Haynes played with just about ...