Roy Haynes performs in Monterey, California, around 1979. Roy Haynes, one of the world’s most influential jazz drummers, has died at age 99. Haynes passed away in Nassau County, New York following a ...

LOS ANGELES -- Jazz drummer Billy Higgins, who helped saxophonist Ornette Coleman develop his revolutionary "free-jazz" style in the late 1950s, has died at age 64 while awaiting his second liver ...

Originally published in London in 1986 by Quartet Books LTD, Bob Gordon's seminal work on the jazz styles and groups that developed primarily in Los Angeles in the 1950s has long been out-of-print and ...

Albert “Tootie” Heath, a self-taught jazz drummer who backed John Coltrane and Nina Simone and later teamed with his brothers on several recordings, died on April 3. He was 88. Heath died at a ...

“An old-time drummer who tries to play with feeling.” This is how Roy Haynes preferred to describe himself, though his legacy spans far beyond such a humble description. The Grammy-winning jazz ...