Joe Hayman

With a surname sounding like a greeting among hipsters, Joe Hayman must have discovered the secret to living a long and healthy life. He celebrated his 100th birthday in the year 2003, but the anti-musician lifestyle crowd might suggest that the secret was giving up performing, since Hayman was employed as a pharmacist since the mid '40s, his horns apparently collecting dust somewhere. He is not the most famous saxophonist from Little Rock--that would have to be Pharoah Sanders. But Hayman contributed solidlly to several groups led by superb pianist Claude Hopkins as well as w...