Signature Roy Haynes & Marcus Gilmore drumsticks & poster..

A pair each of Signature Roy Haynes & Marcus Gilmore (Grandfather & Grandson!) drumsticks and a promotional poster of Roy Hanynes for Yamaha.

ROY HAYNES is the pulse of legendary jazz.  For over 70 years Roy Haynes has influenced and innovated, shaping some of the greatest recordings in jazz while his joyous drumming with the legends of the genre altered the very fabric and direction of jazz improvisation.

Louis Armstrong.  Lester Young.  Charlie Parker.  Thelonius Monk.  Sarah Vaughn.  Miles Davis.  John Coltrane.  Dizzy Gillespie.  Bud Powell.  Ella Fitzgerald.  Stan Getz.  Chick Corea.  Pat Metheny.  The list goes on and on as does Roy’s unflagging energy and marvelous invention.

With his latest group of 20-something cohorts, Roy sends his “Hard Swing” to a timeless place.  Haynes elevates the performances of his FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BAND matching fire stroke for fire stroke, thrill for thrill, a tremendous give and take between the generations fueled by masterful musicianship and youthful abandon.

MARCUS GILMORE (born 1986) was inspired by the music of his grandfather, legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes, who gave him his first set of drums at age 10.  Marcus received the Wynton Kelly Foundation Award, The Wyoming Seminary PAI Best Instrumentalist Award, the Essentially Ellington Best Drum Solo Award, Vail Jazz Festival Ella Fitzgerald Scholarship and the Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony. He performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Monterey High School Jazz Band Japan Tour and the Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY High School Jazz Ensembles. In 2003, Marcus performed in Bern, Switzerland as part of Clark Terry's "Young Titans of Jazz." The same band gave its New York debut at Birdland last fall. Marcus also loves Afro-Cuban Jazz and plays timbales and Latin percussion. He has performed with Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, John Clayton, and others, and has sat in with Chick Corea, Ray Barretto, Branford Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, Wycliffe Gordon, and Roy Hargrove.

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