Out of the Afternoon

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.

Out of the Afternoon
Studio album by Roy Haynes
Released	July or August 1962[1][2]
Recorded	May 16 & 23, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre	Post-bop, modal jazz
Length	37:33
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Roy Haynes chronology
Just Us (1960) Out of the Afternoon (1962) Cracklin' (1962)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
Down Beat	[4]
New Record Mirror	[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[7]

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

• 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.