Haynes was a drummer who liked to prod his fellow players. Over the course of his career, he played with Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Chick Corea and many others.

I spent much of January in Havana. In truth I was waiting not for Trump but for the 40 th edition of Jazz Plaza, Cuba’s famed international jazz festival. But in Cuba as in many other parts of the ...

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The Houston native and Blue Note Records artist is currently the artist director for jazz at the Kennedy Center.