Out of the Afternoon is an album by jazz drummer Roy Haynes, released in the summer of 1962 on Impulse! Records. It features multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk among the musicians in Haynes' quartet.

Track listing

"Moon Ray" (Artie Shaw, Paul Madison, Arthur Quenzer) – 6:41

"Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) – 6:40

"Raoul" (Haynes) – 6:01

"Snap Crackle" (Haynes) – 4:11

"If I Should Lose You" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 5:49

"Long Wharf" (Haynes) – 4:42

"Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 3:39

Personnel

Roland Kirk - tenor saxophone, manzello, stritch, C flute, nose flute

Tommy Flanagan - piano

Henry Grimes - bass

Roy Haynes - drums

In popular culture

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.

Out of the Afternoon

References

Roy Haynes albums

1962 albums

Impulse! Records albums

Modal jazz albums

Post-bop albums

Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio

Albums produced by Bob Thiele

Out of the Afternoon