Roy Haynes Quartet - Roy Haynes / Out of the Afternoon

AllMusic Review by Steven McDonald

Out of the Afternoon is a splendid sounding 1962 set from the Roy Haynes Quartet -- which, at the time, consisted of Haynes, Henry Grimes on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Roland Kirk on saxes, manzello, stritch, and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of techniques in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work. Haynes' drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments; Flanagan's piano playing is equally light and delicate; Grimes' bass work is outstanding (during "Raoul" you have a chance to hear one of the few bowed bass solos on records of that era); and there's no more to be said about Kirk's sax and flute work that hasn't been said a hundred times, apart from the fact that the flute solos on "Snap Crackle" help this cut emerge as particularly outstanding.

Out of the Afternoon is an album by jazz drummer Roy Haynes, released in 1962 on Impulse! Records. It features multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk among the musicians in Haynes Quartet.
 

Track listing 

1. "Moon Ray" (Artie Shaw, Paul Madison, Arthur Quenzer) – 6:41
2. "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) – 6:40
3. "Raoul" (Haynes) – 6:01
4. "Snap Crackle" (Haynes) – 4:11
5. "If I Should Lose You" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 5:49
6. "Long Wharf" (Haynes) – 4:42
7. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 3:39

Personnel 

• Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, C flute, nose flute
• Tommy Flanagan - piano
• Henry Grimes - bass
• Roy Haynes - drums

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