Career
While he was an infant his family moved from Fresno, California to Calgary, Canada. Haney began piano studies at the age of nine, adding guitar at 15. Haney has collaborated with Julian Priester, Buell Neidlinger, John Tchicai, Han Bennink, Mat Marucci and Wilbert de Joode and recorded on the Cadence and CIMP labels.
He was commissioned in 1984 to provide the music for a benefit fundraiser for the Oregon Ballet Theatre, which included the Dance Theater of Harlem.
He has received six commissions from private individuals, and has provided recorded music for film through the Alberta Film Works in 1998. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote over 100 liturgical works.
In 1997, he changed his focus to performing rather than composing. His first tour was with Roswell Rudd in Canada that year, then with Julian Priester in 1998.
In 1999, he played at Yoshi"s in Oakland, California with John Tchicai.
In 2000, he performed solo at the Pacific Rim Chamber Festival in Tofino, Canada and the Calgary International Jazz Festival. He played in Portland in 2001 with Bud Shank and again with Julian Priester and Obo Addy. On September 26, 2001 he played a solo concert six blocks from ground zero of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, at The Knitting Factory and a duo concert with Jorgen Munkeby at BlaJazz in Oslo, Norway.
In 2002, he formed a Herbie Nichols tribute trio that performed concerts and on the radio KMHD in Portland and KJEX in Seattle, Washington.
Later that year he played at The Knitting Factory with Andrew Cyrille and toured extensively with Argentine musicians Diego Chamy and Jorge Hernaez, paid in part by the United States. State Departments of Argentina and Chile. His trio was the headline group at the 2nd International Festival de Jazz de Valparaiso in Chile and several concerts and master classes throughout Argentina.
He played a solo concert at Porgy and Bess in Vienna, Austria. In January 2004, Haney toured with Julian Priester playing at The Jazz Gallery in New York and concerts in France, Belgium and Germany.
In 2006 he recorded Blues Royale and Blue Flint Girl for the CIMP label.
Haney has been the editor and publisher of Cadence Magazine since 2012.