Out of the Afternoon
is a splendid sounding 1962 set from
the Roy Haynes Quartet
-- which, at the time, consisted of
Haynes
,
Henry Grimes
on bass,
Tommy Flanagan
on piano, and
Roland Kirk
on saxes, manzello, stritch, and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of techniques in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work.
' drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments;
Flanagan
's piano playing is equally light and delicate;
Grimes
' bass work is outstanding (during "Raoul" you have a chance to hear one of the few bowed bass solos on records of that era); and there's no more to be said about
Kirk
's sax and flute work that hasn't been said a hundred times, apart from the fact that the flute solos on "Snap Crackle" help this cut emerge as particularly outstanding. ~ Steven McDonald