Roy died on November 12th. He was 99 years old ! This is one of my Jazz Hot‘s covers (# 533, September 1996) with a portrait of him (also published in my book, An ABC for Jazz Lovers) I took during Jazz à Vienne festival (France) in 1988. At that time, Roy played with Gary Peacock (bass) and Michel Petrucciani (piano). In this issue of the review, dedicated to the drummers, is also a long interview (four pages) with Roy by Leslie Gourse and some other interviews with André Ceccarelli and Chico Hamilton with a few other portraits of mine. So long, Roy…
Salut l’artiste…
Merci pour ton denier post, d’autant qu’il cite Dédé Ceccarelli, notre batteur niçois que j’ai connu du temps des… Chats Sauvages !
Ah oui, ça ne nous rajeunit pas ;-)