{"id":4963,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/roy-haynes-love-letters\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"roy-haynes-love-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"Roy Haynes &#8211; Love Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/loveletters_.jpg\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ben and Leo Sidran\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><b><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Roy Haynes<br \/><\/font><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Love Letters<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(???? &#8211; 2003)<br \/> by John Thompson<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Roy Haynes<\/strong>, drummer extraordinaire. Been there, done that. From the birth of Bop to the present, Haynes is getting it done. One hell of a lineup featuring <strong>Kenny Barron<\/strong>(p) <strong>Dave Holland<\/strong>(b), <strong>Christian McBride<\/strong>(b), <strong>Joshua Redmond<\/strong>(ts), <strong>John Scofield<\/strong>(g), and <strong>David Kikoski<\/strong>(p).    <\/p>\n<p>  This release opens with &#8220;The Best Thing For You&#8221;, a bop tune, with nice solos from McBride, Barron and Redmond. Track two, &#8220;That Old Feeling&#8221;, contrasts the bass sounds of McBride (track one, in attack mode) and veteran Holland(artfully treating his solo), while Haynes presents nice brush work. &#8220;Afro Blue&#8221; is performed as a trio, with Holland and Scofield, as Haynes&#8217; solo demonstrates a nice use of cymbals and other drum techniques. Horace Silver&#8217;s &#8220;Que Pasa&#8221; is present, with showcases by Redmond, Barron and McBride(kicking some serious butt) and Haynes tossing around rhythmic emphasis.   <\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;My Shining Hour&#8221; is a nice bop-swing tune, as McBride kicks again. Benny Goodman&#8217;s &#8220;Stompin&#8217; At The Savoy&#8221; is performed with a respectful swing, as Haynes pushes the groove and Barron shows why he has persevered for over 30 years in the Jazz field. &#8220;Shades Of Senegal 2 is a brilliant solo performance by Haynes, who produces some wonderful texture, at times sounding like Billy Cobham on a smaller trap set.  <\/p>\n<p>  While there are no major fireworks present, this is a well done CD. 31\/2 stars.    <\/font>      <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy HaynesLove Letters(???? &#8211; 2003) by John Thompson Roy Haynes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}