The forthcoming will be UPDATED in the very near future (it..s just that I..m so busy simply LIVING good, that I haven..t gotten to it) ...I PROMISE. (02/06/08)I'm blessed to be able to play great music and have it take me all around the world, meet and work with great people ...make the world a nicer place and make people happy too! 2006 was a blessed year for me! Starting out in the fabulous city of Shanghai, where I worked 6 nights a week, in the best jazz club in China for 4 months. Then on to Beijing where I climbed the Great Wall, then onto Hong Kong where I hung out with (and made new)friends. I got to work later in the year with the Boys Choir of Harlem, Lalah Hathaway, Shirley Murdoch and Ms. Gladys Knight. Did concerts from New York to the Netherlands Antilles and was shown much, much love in Anguilla and St. Maarten. Yeah, '06 was a very good year ...but ...the BEST IS YET to come baby!!Biography
The Drummer Mr. Craig Holiday Haynes (named after Billie Holiday), studied the accordion, piano, and guitar, before playing the French horn in elementary school in St. Albans (Queens) NY. Craig began his professional music career playing tenor saxophone at the age of 14. Having majored in music starting in junior high school, then playing in dance and R&B/pop bands of the day, behind groups like The Toys, Brook Benton and Bo Diddley, with the Fabulous Uniques, even doing some soul and R&B music recording sessions. His first sideman session wound up on the radio as a top 10 R&B single. Later, at 20 years old, he felt a “calling†to play the drums. He did a successful tour as a drummer with a top 40 band (Gary Toms Empire) within the same year. He soon felt another “calling†of a more somewhat spiritual nature. He felt the need to preserve what seemed to be an almost dying art form, an art form based on feeling…tradition and culture…. (Swing, Bebop and “real†JAZZ!). Craig soon began studying and performing (on drums qnd percussion) with masters such as Chief Bey and later,Johnny Copeland, Sun Ra and bebopper Barry Harris, even turning down an offer to work with R&B great James Brown. He ran the Art Blakey Breakfast Jam session for 5 years, from 1982-1987 at the Jazz Culture Theater in NYC, and has since been called to play with jazz greats such as Gloria Lynne, George Benson, Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, Tony Bennett, Lionel Hampton, Geri Allen, Clark Terry, Stanley Jordan, Onaje Allen Gumbs, Tony O (of the Legendary Blues Band), Marcus Miller, John Hicks, Lalah Hathaway, Gladys Knight and many, many more.“QUOTES†... “The drummer Craig Haynes is the son of Roy and the equal of his patrimony†- The Philadelphia Inquirer â€Craig Haynes’ drumming reminds me of the great drummers of the past and like you’ve never heard before!†- Lionel Hampton
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