Out of the afternoon

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Out of the afternoon
Studio album by Roy Haynes

Publication
(s)

1962

Label (s) Impulses!

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

running time

37:33

occupation

production

Bob Thiele

Studio (s)

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey

chronology
Just Us
(1960) 		Out of the afternoon Cracklin '
(1963)
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Out of the Afternoon is a jazz album by the Roy Haynes Quartet with multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk . It was recorded in two sessions on May 16 and 23, 1962 in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey and on Impulse! Records released.

The album

The 37-year-old drummer Roy Haynes was still considered a “newcomer” to the scene in the early 1960s -  Stanley Dance ironically mentioned his victory in a jazz poll as a new star in 1962 in the liner notes of the album  - but he had a first in 1954 Album released on Emarcy ( Busman's Holiday ); After that, Haynes rarely got the opportunity to record under his own name; Exceptions were the trio album We Three from 1958 with Phineas Newborn and Paul Chambers on New Jazz and the prestige album Just Us with Richard Wyands released in 1960 .

With the Impulse label, founded by Creed Taylor in 1960 ! was associated with Haynes from the start; he was involved in its first release, the album The Great Kai & J. J. by trombonists Kai Winding and J. J. Johnson ; Haynes was part of Oliver Nelson's band when recording The Blues and the Abstract Truth in 1961 . When he switched to Bob Thiele , he was given the opportunity to record this album, which was to become the highlight of his career, says Ashley Kahn in his label history. Before the recording under Haynes' direction, the saxophonist Roland Kirk had recorded his Mercury album We Three Kings in August 1961 and played in the Charles Mingus Band ( Oh Yeah! ) In November . The blind musician had already worked with Roy Haynes on the recordings of his next album, Kirk's Works , in April 1962 .

In addition, the Impulse session under Haynes' direction included pianist Tommy Flanagan , in whose trio Haynes first played in 1960, and bassist Henry Grimes , who had previously worked with Sonny Rollins , Perry Robinson and Thelonious Monk . For the album, Haynes selected a program of jazz standards such as Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger's “If I Should Lose You”, Bart Howard's “Fly Me to the Moon” and the classic “Some Other Spring” and added three original compositions, “ Raoul ”,“ Snap Crackle ”and“ Long Wharf ”.

The drummer begins the album with an introduction on the cymbals, which Flanagan and then Grimes join; then Roland Kirk plays the theme of the Artie Shaw number "Moon Ray" on the tenor ; Kirk plays with a Sidney Bechet- like sound here, which is also known from other Kirk recordings such as “From Bechet, Byas and Fats” on Rip, Rig and Panic . After an introduction, Kirk's solo follows over three choruses, where he also blows the manzello . Tommy Flanagan replaces him with a solo until Kirk returns for a second short solo.

Roy Haynes live at Carnegie Hall in September 2007.

Kirk begins the waltz “Fly Me to the Moon” in a more swinging and conventional way, in order to quickly increase the musical action with the additional use of the Manzello. After Flanagan slows down again, Henry Grimes has a short solo. Kirk's subsequent Manzello improvisations are repeatedly interrupted by Haynes in call-and-response fashion until Kirk merges into the fluid theme play; he typically ends the title with a coda on both wind instruments.
It follows Haynes' of Latin American percussion influenced entitled "Raoul", one on a simple riff built Hardbop number. "A nimble and elaborate" game follows from Flanagan before Henry Grimes has his solo. Roland Kirk then plays the saxophone and Manzello again, at the same time and individually, when Roy Haynes interrupts him.

Haynes' track "Snap Crackle" begins with a brief introduction by the leader; Tommy Flanagan answers with the call Roy ... Haynes! , which is supposed to remember the performances of the drummer with Sarah Vaughan , as fans and confessed to shout him out. Immediately after this introduction, Kirk plays flutes for the first time, including the nose flute, which according to critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton is one of the highlights of the album. The name of the piece goes back to a phrase used by bassist Al McKibbon to describe the drummer's style.
The ballad character of the Robin / Rainger classic "If I Shold Lose You" is immediately abandoned by Roland Kirk's "great solo" "with a storm on the stritch," says Stanley Dance. When he returns after a lovely Flanagan solo, the memory of the Bechet sound he has so often cultivated comes back to life.
/ The third original by Roy Haynes, "Long Wharf" is an uptempo number in memory of his childhood in Boston , with Grimes also having a longer solo. The album ends with the quiet standard “Some Other Spring”, with which the mood changes completely: “The end (with Roland Kirk at the Manzello) gets a wistful, mostly pastoral note”.

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

Rating of the album

Henry Grimes with Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Avreeayl Ra at the HotHouse in Chicago, March 2005

Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album the second highest rating in their Penguin Guide to Jazz ; Hayne's one-time album for Impulse is great.
Steven McDonald called the collaboration between Haynes and Kirk an extraordinary session, which was awarded the highest rating in Allmusic .
The album is a delightful mix of techniques both in Haynes' arrangement and in the performance of the quartet; in which all the musicians involved did an excellent job. Haynes' drumming is absolutely great here, light-footed dancing around the other instruments; Flanagan's piano playing is similarly airy and sensitive; Grimes' work on the bass is exceptional: the title "Raoul" gives him the opportunity to hear one of the rare bowed solos in this era of jazz. And there wasn't much more to say about Kirk's game that wasn't already said in other places; except for the fact that his flute solos in "Snap Crackle" lead to this part being singled out as a partly extraordinary achievement.

Editorial notes

In the 1962 original liner notes, Stanley Dance incorrectly described Roland Kirk's instruments Manzello and Stritch (which Dance erroneously called "Strich"); Michael Cuscuna corrected this when the album was reissued in 1995. The cover photography was done by Lee Tanner .

The titles

Tommy Flanagan
  • Roy Haynes Quartet: Out of the Afternoon (Impulse A (S) 23 - IMP 11802)
  1. Moon Ray (Artie Shaw, Paul Madison, Arthur Quenzer) - 6:38
  2. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) (Bart Howard) - 6:38
  3. Raoul (Roy Haynes) - 5:59
  4. Snap Crackle (Roy Haynes) - 4:09
  5. If I Should Lose You ( Leo Robin , Ralph Rainger ) - 5:47
  6. Long Wharf - 4:40
  7. Some Other Spring ( Ira Kitchings , Arthur Herzog Jr. ) - 3:29

Tracks 2 to 5 were added on May 16, tracks 1, 6 and 7 on May 23, 1962.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Quoted from St. Dance, liner notes.
  2. ↑ Quoted from Kahn, p. 70 f.
  3. ↑ The Emarcy album was also released on Verve Records under the title Domino .
  4. ↑ Tommy Flanagan, Tommy Potter , Roy Haynes Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 18, 1960; see. jazzdisco.org.
  5. ↑ So Stanley Dance in the liner notes.
  6. ↑ See Stanley Dances, Liner notes.
  7. ↑ a b cf. Cook / Morton, 6th edition, p. 691.
  8. ↑ Quoted from Stanley Dance.
  9. ↑ allmusic