Renowned for his rhythmic quirks, Roy Haynes was also one of jazz’s most malleable drummers. He brought heated intensity to John Coltrane’s live juggernaut “Impressions”, yet conjured a misty sheen of cymbals on Lester Young’s “Ding Dong”. Haynes had a keen sense for his place in any given track, whether stoking diffusion on Alice Coltrane’s spooky organ spiritual “Affinity” or shadowing Sarah Vaughan’s bobbing, weaving scat on “Shulie a Bop”. Haynes passed away in 2024 at the age of 99.