[Dixielandjazz] The Fountain of Youth

[Steve Barbone]

Remember the thread on Band Names a year or so ago? This name gets my vote;

(Snipped from a review in the NY Times)

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

ROY HAYNES AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BAND

The jazz drummer Roy Haynes doesn¹t lie back: his subtleties are all
subcategories of brazenness. Now 81, he is a high-modernist showman. When
you see him leading his band, you are confronted with his life force.

Appropriately he calls this quartet the Fountain of Youth Band. It¹s always
decent or better, and this lineup, with Jaleel Shaw on saxophones, Robert
Rodriguez on piano, and John Sullivan on bass, represents a particularly
high-impact phase of it. If you have ever listened to what Mr. Haynes
recorded with John Coltrane in the early 1960¹s ‹ pieces like ³Dear Old
Stockholm² ‹ you will understand the active, pummeling, driving sound this
band is after. But in the end it¹s Mr. Haynes¹s show.