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Drummer Roy Haynes, born in March 1925, maintains his remarkably consistent string of quality records over the past 17 years with this 2011 outing. The kinetic trumpeter and flugelhornist Roy Hargrove joins Haynes and his sparkling Fountain of Youth quartet on a half-dozen tracks, including a pair of reinvigorated gems from the bosom of the bop era, playing the Dizzy Gillespie role on Chano Pozo’s “Tin Tin Deo,” and making like Miles Davis alongside altoist Jaleel Shaw’s Charlie Parker on the original, non-modal “Milestones.” But those highlights aren’t the pinnacle of Roy-Alty, which belong to a pair of duets between Haynes and pianist Chick Corea: A languid and beguiling collective improvisation entitled “All The Bars Are Open,” and a glorious rendition of Thelonious Monk’s “Off Minor” that finds Corea brandishing Monk’s block-square notes and angular lines with his own flourishes while Haynes roams his kit with delighted vigor. It amounts to a triumphantly efficient and varied reunion from two-thirds of the trio behind Corea’s 1968 opus, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.
Haynes also reaches back into his resume for the ballad “Pinky,” earmarking his long stint with vocalist Sarah Vaughan and giving Fountain of Youth pianist Martin Berjerano… read more »
