Robin Kenyatta
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Robin Kenyatta (b. Robert Prince Haynes, Mar. 6, 1942, Moncks Corner, South Carolina - Oct. 28, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.
Kenyatta grew up in New York. He played with Bill Dixon there in the 1960s, playing with his project "The October Revolution in Jazz". Later that decade he played with The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Roswell Rudd, Sonny Stitt, Archie Shepp, and Buddy Miles among others. In the 1970s he played with Alan Silva and Andrew Hill; for a brief time he experimented with instrumental pop music during this decade as well. He moved to Europe during that decade, finding it easier to make a livng there as a jazz musician.
Later, he played with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, B. B. King, Dr. John and George Benson, played the Montreux Jazz Festival, and went with his own groups on a European tour. He also led a jazz school in Lausanne. In 2002 Kenyatta was again back in the USA and active as a director of music in Boston. He died in Lausanne in 2004.
