Roy HAYNES - Out Of The Afternoon 1962

Roy HAYNES - Out Of The Afternoon 1962
Label: Grp / Impulse
Audio CD: (January 30, 1996)

Jazz

This splendid-sounding CD reissues a 1962 set from the Roy Haynes Quartet — which, at the time, consisted of Haynes, Henry Grimes on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Roland Kirk on saxes, manzello, stritch, and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of techniques in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work — Haynes' drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments, Flanagan's piano playing is equally light and delicate, Grimes' bass work is outstanding (during "Raoul" you have a chance to hear one of the few bowed bass solos on records of that era), and there's not much that can be said about Kirk's sax and flute work that hasn't already been said a hundred times, apart from the fact that the flute solos on "Snap Crackle" help this cut emerge as particularly outstanding.
By Steven McDonald. AMG.
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Roy Haynes played with the best, including Trane, Bird, Miles, Monk etc...He may have had a low public profile, but his sound was huge. On "Out of the Afternoon" he's joined by a stellar group, including the eccentric Roland "Rahsaan" Kirk, the blind virtuoso who thought playing only one saxophone at a time was for squares.
Anyway, this album really smokes, and it's all the more delightful for being so obscure. The style is hard to classify--the music is way too cool and the solos too restrained to be bop--but always melodic, and the solos always swing like crazy. Plus, for those new to Rahsaan, his style is a true revelation, and he's never been in better form. Using multiple saxes simultaneously, he creates chords (!) and jaw dropping solo runs, all while sounding in perfect harmony with himself and the rest of the group.

The tunes are all memorable, about half originals, half brilliantly adapted standards. The opener, the classic "Moonrays" makes immediately clear the confidence, consummate musicianship, and brimming originality of this quartet. And the rest of the album makes good on the promise of this first track, particularly on "Snap Crackle" an homage to Roy Haynes' nickname and the crisp, signature sound of his drums, and "Fly Me to the Moon," another beautifully rendered standard full of sultry swing and terrific solos.

In any case, this is highly accessible, extremely musical, and totally swinging jazz that provides a refreshing change from the overplayed classics.
By Daniel G. Carlin.
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A 1962 set from the Roy Haynes Quartet which, at the time, consisted of Haynes, Henry Grimes on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano and Roland Kirk on saxes, manzello, stritch and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of technique in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work. Haynes' drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments, Flanagan's piano playing is equally light and delicate, Grimes' bass work is outstanding and Kirk's sax and flute work is as excellent as ever.
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Roland Kirk- Tenor Sax & Flute
Tommy Flanagan- Piano
Henry Grimes- Bass
Roy Haynes- Drums
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01. Moonray (Artie Shaw-Paul Madison-A. Quenzer) 6:41
02. Fly Me to the Moon (Howard) 6:40
03. Raoul (Roy Haynes) 6:01
04. Snap Crackle (Roy Haynes) 4:11
05. If I Should Lose You (Leo Robin-Ralph Rainger) 5:49
06. Long Wharf (Roy Haynes) 4:42
07. Some Other Spring (Kitchings-Herzog) 3:29
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