Tonight's Jazz Feature is an iconic album by master drummer Roy Haynes with a hand picked quartet of amazing musicians. The album was issued on Impulse Records and recorded in May of 1962 and usually always makes the list of 100 best Jazz albums. The group that Roy picked was unique beginning with Roland (aka Rahsaan) Kirk on all of his horns: tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, and flutes, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Henry Grimes and of course Roy Haynes. The album consists of four well selected standard tunes and 3 originals by Haynes. With this album we celebrate Roy's 99 years on the planet and his huge contribution to Jazz history and a life well lived. Roy was born in Boston on March 13,1925 and died on November 12,2024 peacefully ay his home in Nassau County New York,

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