Out of the Afternoon

Out of the Afternoon
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly or August 1962[1][2]
RecordedMay 16 & 23, 1962
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenrePost-bop, modal jazz
Length37:33
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Roy Haynes chronology
Just Us
(1960)
Out of the Afternoon
(1962)
Cracklin'
(1962)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Down Beat[4]
New Record Mirror[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[7]

Out of the Afternoon is an album by jazz drummer Roy Haynes, released in the summer of 1962 on Impulse! Records.[1][2] 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

The album's song "Snap Crackle" was featured in the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, from the fictional in-game jazz music radio station "JNR 108.5 (Jazz Nation Radio)" in which Haynes himself is the DJ of that station.

References

  1. ^ a b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (21 Jul 1962). "July Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b Editorial Staff, Billboard (18 Aug 1962). "Out of the Afternoon". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
  3. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r140471
  4. ^ Down Beat: October 25, 1962 vol. 29, no. 27
  5. ^ Griffiths, David (11 May 1963). "Roy Haynes: Out Of The Afternoon" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 113. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  6. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 98. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  7. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 675. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.