Renowned jazz drummer Roy Haynes has passed away at the age of 99. Haynes collaborated with numerous other jazz musicians in his career which spanned 70 years. He’s fonly known as “Snap Crackle” among ...

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 ...

The most exciting jazz reissue of the year has been Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, a tape rescued from the forgotten bowels of the New York Public Library. It captures ...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Roy Haynes, revered as one of the greatest jazz drummers of all time who helped to shape the bebop era and played with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died aged ...

“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 ...

Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band, died on Sunday at the age of 83. Joan Clancy, DeJohnette’s assistant, confirmed the musician’s death to ...

NEW YORK — Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated with Keith Jarrett and many other greats of the genre, has died at ...

Joe Farnsworth was 10 or 11 when he got the chance to meet a drumming legend: Max Roach. It was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in 1979, where Roach taught. Farnsworth, who grew up in ...

Throughout his seven-decade career, the prolific drummer performed with Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Sarah Vaughan and more Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Roy Haynes, one of jazz’s most iconic and influential drummers, has passed away at the age of 99. His death, which occurred on Tuesday, marks the end of an era for the bebop movement and jazz as a ...