Louis Hayes

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Cool Holiday Jazz Across Manhattan 12/22/2011

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Today's Top Artists Gather on-Stage for Giants of Jazz at Sopac on October 1 09/26/2011

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, September 23-29 09/23/2011

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: New York Jazz in July 07/14/2011

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Woody Shaw - United (1981, Reissue) 03/25/2011

A superior hard bop drummer best known for supporting soloists rather than taking the spotlight himself, Louis Hayes led a band in Detroit as a teenager and was with Yusef Lateef during 1955-1956. He had three notable associations: Horace Silver's Quintet (1956-1959), the Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1959-1965), and the Oscar Peterson Trio (1965-1967). Hayes often teamed up with Sam Jones, both ...more