Roy Haynes, a jazz drummer who ignited the rhythmic ... musical vocabulary of his instrument over an eight-decade career, died Nov. 12 in Oceanside, New York. He was 99. The death was confirmed ...

Veteran jazz drummer Roy Haynes died in Nassau County, New York Tuesday at 99, his daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore said. Haynes-Gilmore told The New York Times that her father passed away on the ...

Roy Owen Haynes was born in the Roxbury section of ... Haynes’ oldest brother, Douglas, served in the U.S. Army in World War II and died less than a decade after coming home.