Louis Hayes
Drummer Louis Hayes is a superior hard bop stylist best known for supporting soloists rather than taking the spotlight himself. Over a seven-plus-decade career, he has been ranked alongside the illustrious Art Blakey as a superior, swinging hard bop stylist who pushes a beat under a given soloist, creating active, fluid integration between frontline players and the rhythm section. Beginning his career with Yusef Lateef's fine group in 1955, he made his bones with Horace Silver, with whom he worked from 1956-1960. He cut his self-titled leader debut for Vee-Jay with the Lateef group as his sidemen. He recorded as a co-leader dozens of times after that, but it is his session and live work for which he is best known; his accumulated discography numbers well over 500 entries.
Hayes was born into a musical family in Detroit in 1937. His father played drums and his mom piano. He received his first drum kit at ten and was deeply influenced by big bands, and by drummer Philly Joe Jones in particular. Hayes was leading his own groups before he was 16. He began his association with Yusef Lateef in 1955/1956 before his three most notable associations: He played in Horace Silver's Quintet from 1956 to 1959, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet between 1959 and 1965, and the Oscar Peterson Trio from 1965 to 1967. Hayes often teamed up with bassist Sam Jones, both with Adderley and Peterson and in freelance settings. In addition to his group memberships and leader dates, the spent the '60s as an in-demand sideman with artists ranging from trombonists Curtis Fuller and J.J. Johnson and saxophonists John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Phil Woods, and Harold Land, among many others.
Hayes led a variety of groups during the '70s, including quintets co-led by Junior Cook and Woody Shaw, and appeared with a diverse range of musicians from Cecil Taylor and McCoy Tyner to Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis, and Dexter Gordon. His best-known recordings from the '70s include 1974's Breath of Life, 1977's Real Thing, and 1979's Ichi-Ban. Other well-received albums followed, including 1983's Colour, 1989's Una Max, 1994's Blue Lou, and 1996's Louis at Large. Hayes continued to stay busy in the 2000s, releasing albums like 2002's Dreamin' of Cannonball and 2009's Time Keeper. On his 2017 Blue Note album, Serenade for Horace, Hayes paid tribute to his friend and former boss. High Note released a series of live tour volumes with Shaw, and in 2019, Jazzline issued the archival document Louis Hayes & Junior Cook Quintet's At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1976.
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Exactly Right!
Bebop - Pubblicato da Savant il 21 apr 2023
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At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1976 (Live)
Louis Hayes, Junior Cook Quintet
Jazz - Pubblicato da Jazzline il 1 mar 1976
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Return of the Jazz Communicators
Bebop - Pubblicato da Smoke Sessions il 13 mag 2014
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Dreamin' Of Cannonball
Louis Hayes, Viincent Herring, Jeremy Pelt, Rick Germanson, Vincent Archer
Jazz - Pubblicato da TCB - The Montreux Jazz Label™ il 1 gen 2001
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Light and Lively
Jazz - Pubblicato da SteepleChase il 1 gen 1989
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The Tour, Vol. 1 (Recorded Live in Stuttgart, March 22, 1976)
Bebop - Pubblicato da HighNote Records il 1 gen 2000
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Barry Harris At the Jazz Workshop (Live, Mono Version)
Barry Harris, Sam Jones, Louis Hayes
Jazz - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1960
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Nelia
Jacob Artved, David Wong, Jeb Patton
Bebop - Pubblicato da Storyville Records il 7 feb 2020
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What's New?
McCoy Tyner, Avery Sharpe, Louis Hayes
Jazz - Pubblicato da West Wind il 11 mar 2019
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Quintessential Lou
Louis Hayes, Abraham Burton, Riley Mullins, Dave Hazeltine, Santi DeBriano
Jazz - Pubblicato da TCB - The Montreux Jazz Label™ il 1 gen 1999
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Variety Is The Spice (Original)
Jazz - Pubblicato da Gryphon il 6 gen 2006
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Serenade For Horace
Jazz - Pubblicato da Blue Note Records il 26 mag 2017
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