Out of the Afternoon

Occupation

• Drums: Roy Haynes
• Tenor Saxophone, manzello, Stritch, Flute: Roland Kirk
• Piano: Tommy Flanagan
• Bass: Henry Grimes

Out of the Afternoon is a jazz album of the Roy Haynes Quartet with multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk, recorded in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in two sessions on 16 and 23 May in 1962 and released on Impulse! Records.

The album

Although the 37 -year-old drummer Roy Haynes was in the early 1960s still considered a "newcomer " of the scene - Stanley Dance mentioned in 1962 in the liner notes of the album ironically his former victory in a Jazzpoll as a new star - but had in 1954 a first album on Emarcy published ( Busman 's Holiday ); Haynes rarely got after taking opportunity under his own name; Exceptions were the trio album We Three 1958 with Phineas Newborn and Paul Chambers on New Jazz and in 1960 published Prestige album Just Us with Richard Wyands.

By 1960, founded by Creed Taylor label Impulse! Haynes was associated from the beginning; he participated in its first release, the album The Great Kai & JJ the trombonist Kai Winding and JJ Johnson; Haynes was 1961 to Oliver Nelson's band during the recording of The Blues and the Abstract Truth. With the change to Bob Thiele, he was then given the opportunity to the recordings of this album, which was to be the culmination of his career, so Ashley Kahn in his label 's history.

The saxophonist Roland Kirk had before the recordings under Haynes ' management nor his Mercury album We Three Kings recorded in August 1961 and played in November in the Charles Mingus band ( Oh Yeah ). In April 1962, the blind musician Roy Haynes had worked together during the recording of his next album Kirk 's Works.

Added to this was the pianist Tommy Flanagan, had played in the trio Haynes first time in 1960, and bassist Henry Grimes, who had previously worked with Sonny Rollins, Perry Robinson and Thelonious Monk at the Impulse session under Haynes ' line. For the album Haynes chose a program of jazz standards from how Leo Robin and Ralph Raingers " If I Should Lose You ", Bart Howard's " Fly Me to the Moon" and the classic " Some Other Spring" and it added three original compositions, " Raoul ", " snap Crackle " and " Long Wharf ".

The drummer begins the album with an introduction to the pool, in the Flanagan and then enter Grimes; then Roland Kirk plays the tenor the theme of Artie Shaw number "Moon Ray"; Kirk plays a Sidney Bechet -like sound that is also known by other Kirk- shots like "From Bechet, Byas and Fats " on Rip, Rig and Panic. After an introduction Kirk's solo follows three choruses, where he also blows the manzello. Tommy Flanagan solves it off with a solo until Kirk returns for a second short solo.

The waltz " Fly Me to the Moon" begins Kirk tend swinging -conventional to quickly with the additional use of Manzellos to increase the musical events. According to Flanagan, who takes the tempo down again, Henry Grimes has a short solo. Kirk's subsequent manzello improvisations are repeatedly interrupted in call - and-response style of Haynes until Kirk goes into the liquid themed play; He finished the title in typical way for him with a coda on both instruments. It follows Haynes ' of Latin American percussion influenced title " Raoul ", one built on a simple riff hard bop number. " A nimble and sophisticated " game follows Flanagan before Henry Grimes has his solo. Roland Kirk plays saxophone and then again manzello, simultaneously and separately in the exchange if it interrupts Roy Haynes.

Haynes ' number " Snap Crackle " begins with a short introduction of the band leader; on Tommy Flanagan responds with the call Roy Haynes ...! , to commemorate the performances of the drummer with Sarah Vaughan, as fans and known him as shouting. Right after this introduction, Kirk plays the first time on flutes, including the nose flute, which is the critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton, according to one of the highlights of the album. The name of the piece goes back to a phrase with which the bassist Al McKibbon described the style of the drummer. The ballad character of Robin / Rainger classic " If I shold Lose You " is immediately " leave of Roland Kirk's " Grand Solo " with a storm on the Stritch ," said Stanley Dance. When he returns after a lovely Flanagan solo, coming back on the memory of him so often tended Bechet's sound. / The third original by Roy Haynes, " Long Wharf " is an uptempo number in memory of his childhood in Boston, which also Grimes has a longer solo. The album ends with the quiet standard " Some Other Spring", with the mood changes completely: "The conclusion gets ( with Roland Kirk on manzello ) a wistful, mostly pastoral note."

Out of the Afternoon remained both Roland Kirk's only recording and Roy Haynes ' only album as a leader for Impulse!, Which remained connected to the label with occasional recordings with John Coltrane ( Dear Old Stockholm, 1963).

Album Review

Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded in their Penguin Guide to Jazz the album the second highest score; Haynes unique album for Impulse was great. Steven McDonald cited the cooperation between Haynes and Kirk an extraordinary session, which was awarded in Allmusic with the highest grade. The album is a delightful mix of both techniques in Haynes ' Package 's and in the performance of the quartet; in which all the musicians involved were delivering excellent work. Haynes ' drumming is here absolutely gorgeous, light-footed dancing to playing the other instruments; Flanagan's piano playing is similar airy and delicate; Grimes ' bass work is unusual: there is in the title " Raoul " the opportunity it one of the - to hear rare painted solos - in this era of jazz. And Kirk's game, there was not much more to say, which would not have said another place; except for the fact that his flute solos in " Snap Crackle " lead to single out this part as partially exceptional performance.

Editorial notes

In the original liner notes 1962 Stanley Dance described Roland Kirk instruments manzello and Stritch ( the Dance mistakenly " stroke" called ) false; this corrected Michael Cuscuna at the new edition of the album in 1995. The cover photograph was by Lee Tanner.

The title

• Roy Haynes Quartet: Out of the Afternoon ( Impulse A ( S) 23 - IMP 11802 )

The title 2-5 titles 1, 6 and 7 were taken on May 23, 1962 on May 16.