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Roy Haynes

American jazz drummer and group leader

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born: 1925
died: 2024
age at death: 99
known for: drummer, conductor, jazz musician

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Roy Owen Haynes was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career spanning more than eight decades, he played swing, bebop, jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He is considered to be a pioneer of jazz drumming.

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