"Roy Haynes And The Fountain Of Youth Band"

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"The jazz drummer Roy Haynes doesn’t lie back: his subtleties are all subcategories of brazenness. Now 81, he is a high-modernist showman. When you see him leading his band, you are confronted with his life force...

...Playing through a waltz with the undercurrent of a clave, Mr. Haynes keeps up the drumming’s aggression while the band at first lies low; so much the better for the players to concentrate on Mr. Haynes’s gestures and keep in step with them.

He subdivides the rhythm, putting snare drum and cymbal in a constant tussle, making the whole tune a kind of solo for himself, even as he has no specified solo break. After the first four minutes or so, the band breaks out, cresting for a bit in the middle, with Mr. Rodriguez and Mr. Shaw playing powerfully and densely, ranting through their instruments and getting into Coltrane territory, before all four rein themselves in again. The piece ends with Mr. Haynes clicking his sticks against a bass vamp. It’s cathartic, and tidy"

BEN RATLIFF--The New York Times

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Mr. Haynes is playing Tuesday through Saturday at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola