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.

References

1. 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. 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.