Miles Davis and I, we used to race cars... we both bought our first cars maybe it was June of 1950. I was working with Charlie Parker. And we would take those cars, and none of us had a license, we ...

When Roy Haynes sat down at the tiny kit on the stage of the Everyman Theatre, during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in 2005, he shook his head ruefully and said, "Man, I feel like a midget!" Rising ...

Roy Haynes, a virtuoso of jazz percussion, who left Roxbury at age 20 and went on to accompany the legendary likes of Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane, ...