Newsday from New York, New York • 7

Roy Haynes says his love of dramming have started in the womb Because all I can remember from the time I was small was heating on things in the house Even my mother's dining room dishes This week his quintet plays the Village Vanguard Unsung Roy Haynes Fame is finally catching up with one of the great drummers of jazz restlessness then the thing was that a drummer should be felt but not heard" he says broke too many dishes not to be heard when I started hanging out at 52nd Street to hear cats like Bird and Diz and Max Roach And what they did with rhythm It was like this is what I wanted to play all He joined combos led by Lester Young Bud Powell Davis and Parker exploiting the wide possibilities for rhythmic expression opened by innovations Throughout the he gained re known for a distinctive mix of intuition and drive which was the perfect combination for a drummer accompanying Sarah Vaughan with whom he worked from 1953 to 1958 go with Sarah for the money but for the challenge" Haynes says she sang the flatted fifth She could do things within the rhythm that kept you thinking She was so inventive she was a force of nature" He left Vaughan to concentrate on raising his family were people who thought I stopped playing altogether in those he says But he remained near the cutting edge taking part in the epochal Five Spot sessions with Monk and Coltrane During the early he was the backup drummer to Elvin Jones in celebrated quartet It was Coltrane who offered this memorable description of Haynes' style: spreads the VIDENCE OF rapport with can be found on "Newport (Impulse!) a recording of performance at the Newport Jazz Festival which includes a spectacular duet of tenor sax and drums in which each man seems intent on topping the other in inventiveness and power ooukl buildl He could come to one climax and build another climax and then another The Sixties was a period for that kind of architecture You could go long and sustain that kind of momentum and keep it interesting we have musicians who just want to keep goingon and on hoping they'll come across whatever it lous career has spanned swing bop poet-bop fusion and neo-bop Yet despite a glittering resumd of impressive influential work with Davis Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie John Coltrane Thekmious Monk Stan Getz and a reputation-making five-year stint with Sarah Vaughan Haynes remains the prototypical Unsung Drummer One recent morning relaxing in his basement rec room Hqynes put the situation this way: get around to me sooner or later The ones that know they know Those that know are growing in number The day Hqynes turned 68 in March the Danish Jazz Center presented him with the $30000 Jazzpar Prize the closest thing the world has to a Nobel for jazz musicians (Previous winners include Tommy Flanagan Lee Konitz and Muhal Richard Abrams) (Evidence) a new live CD of a Boston date may be the best recording ever released under name can tell from listening to it that I like to go ssys Haynes whose parents were from Barbados He grew up one of four sons in Roxbuiy section his mother encouraged him to play the violin West Indian parent did" he says One of the neighborhood kids who stayed with the instrument he recalls was a West Indian child named Louis Eugene Wolcott who grew up to become Louis Farrak-han saw me play in Chicago not too long ago Had all these cats in suits around him Said Violin or not something in Haynes made him want to play the drums from the very beginning have started in the womb Because all 1 can remember from the time I was small was beating on things in the house Even my dining room dishes Broke alll Just for the sound they He played drums in his church and high-school bands and was starting to earn a reputation among local swing musicians was restless he recalls went to the Boston Conservatoty in 1944 learn And I was already playing all over town with cats like Pete Brown and Frankie Newton So I figured I was reacty to go to New York Which I did the following year" By Gene Seymour STAFF WRITES DT that long ago It as if Central Park was brand-new or anything But once drummer Roy Haynes recalls it was possible for a pair of sharp-dressed young hipsters to race their cars through the winding curving roads late at night without running into a traffic light a cop or a repair crew (It sure sounds like a long time ago!) Haynes figures it was about 1950 He was one of the two sports-car fanatics in question The other was Miles Davis Both were already celebrated participants in the glamorous bebop scene then flourishing along 52nd Street a few blocks south of where they staged their post-gig high-speed races had an Olds trying to remember what Miles was Haynes says man we had some bad races in those Two of the three cars sharing space in garage these days are sports jobs the third is a big bronze P-sHillm The garage is attached to a comfortable split-level home near the edge of a quiet cul-de-sac in Roosevelt LI Haynes himself seems like a classic sports car going feat even when it moving at all He is small lean catlike and almost unbearably stylish in appearance As a drummer he also carries a wickedly versatile propulsion system capable of precise turns high speed and uncanny agility Tonight through Sunday this marvelous system will be at work at the Village Vanguard 178 Seventh Ave (212) 254-4037 where Haynes is leading a quintet with pianist Dave Kikoski bassist Ed Howard alto saxophonist Donald Harrison and his 31-year-old cometist son Graham never encouraged him Haynes says George Adams the late tenor saxophonist used to check Graham out when he was a little bqy and watched us rehearse with my Hip Ensemble in the late Sixties George noticed the way he looked at us when we played George could tell from eyes that he was gonna be a Along with Ed Blackwell Art Blakey Max Roach Kenny Clarke and Elvin Jones Hqynes is one of the mnt significant drummers of modem jazz His fabu is they want to say why nowadays I tell the people who play with me the same thing Paint your picture Tell your story But don't stay out there too long I have no beat to tl1 w-JD Haynes first Big Apple gig was with Luis Russell orchestra whose swing tempos onty increased ffeynesj Jtxst.