cymbal

Along with such contemporaries as Kenny Clarke, Max Roach and Sid Catlett, Haynes helped transform the drums from their traditional time-keeping role into a crisp assemblage of percussion and cymbal sounds designed to keep the music alive and thriving.

His jaw dropped and his body tensed in wild anticipation of uncompromised joy as he watched his buddies perform, followed by a cymbal crash of a cheer, the sound of eternal youth.

The theme tune - At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal - was rearranged by Barbara Moore in 1970 and is still in use today.

It’s like hearing a drum roll — the ball charging down the lane — with no crashing cymbal at the end.

He grabbed the cymbal with his left hand, struck a syncopated beat with his right, stuck out his tongue and rocked to the rhythm while playing.