Artist: Roy Haynes
Album: Out Of The Afternoon
Label: Impulse!
Year Of Release: 1962/1996
Format: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
01. Moon Ray (6:42)
02. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (6:41)
03. Raoul (6:01)
04. Snap Crackle (4:12)
05. If I Should Lose You (5:49)
06. Long Wharf (4:42)
07. Some Other Spring (3:30)
Personnel:
Roland Kirk – tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, C flute, nose flute
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Henry Grimes – bass
Roy Haynes – drums
Out of the Afternoon is a splendid sounding 1962 set from the Roy Haynes Quartet — which, at the time, consisted of Haynes, Henry Grimes on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Roland Kirk on saxes, manzello, stritch, and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of techniques in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work. Haynes’ drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments; Flanagan’s piano playing is equally light and delicate; Grimes’ bass work is outstanding (during “Raoul” you have a chance to hear one of the few bowed bass solos on records of that era); and there’s no more to be said about Kirk’s sax and flute work that hasn’t been said a hundred times, apart from the fact that the flute solos on “Snap Crackle” help this cut emerge as particularly outstanding.
by Steven McDonald
