Jazz Articles about Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes: The Time Keeper

by John Patten
August 6, 2009

If drummer Louis Hayes intended to recreate the classic sounds of, well, Louis Hayes recordings on The Time Keeper, he succeeded. In a set of tunes that includes two penned by Hayes, two by saxophonist Abraham Burton, and two by pianist Horace Silver for good measure, Hayes reminds why he's been a leader--and a leading sideman--for so many years.

As a time keeper, Hayes is impeccable. Never as boisterous as Art Blakey or as subtle as Philly Joe ...

Louis Hayes: The Time Keeper & Off The Cuff

by Graham L. Flanagan
July 11, 2009

Louis HayesThe Timekeeper18th & Vine2009 Rick GermansonOff the CuffOwl Studios2009 Louis Hayes still ranks among the few hard bop legends that emerged during the '50s and '60s who still contribute to the contemporary jazz scene. Perhaps his most famous association was with Horace Silver but his next major gig arrived as part of Cannonball ...

Louis Hayes at Showplace Studios

by David A. Orthmann
July 6, 2008

Housed in the rear of a nondescript building on a busy northern New Jersey thoroughfare, Showplace Studios is a no frills workspace nearly devoid of worldly distractions. The Showplace consists of an office, a small lounge, a control room, and studio. Regardless of where you are in the compact area, everything is just a few steps away. Before the musicians arrive to begin the day's recording, the place is silent except for the low drone of the recording machinery. The ...

Louis Hayes: Maximum Firepower and The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco

by Ken Dryden
August 5, 2007

Louis Hayes spent six productive years as the drummer for Cannonball Adderley, appearing on around two dozen albums with the alto saxophonist between 1959 and 1965. Hayes' first record date with Adderley was The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco and the drummer has since recorded extensively as a leader, particularly over the last decade. In recent years he founded the Cannonball Legacy Band to explore the repertoire of the late altoist. Louis Hayes and the Cannonball ...

Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Legacy Band: Maximum Firepower

by Gaylord Smith
May 1, 2007

A group setting itself up as a legacy band runs the risk of unfair comparison with the original, particularly when the bulk of the material happens to be widely known music from the justly famed Cannonball Adderley combo. Although drummer/leader Louis Hayes worked for the alto saxophonist for six years and helped create some of the best-loved music in the Adderley canon, he is not immune to such comparison.

It's not that Maximum Firepower is a bad recording, ...

Louis Hayes

by Marcia Hillman
September 25, 2005

Influenced by Philly Joe Jones and mentored by Papa Jo Jones, drummer Louis Hayes is a jazz survivor and a swinging one at that. The one-time Detroit musician grew up listening to and eventually playing with such legendary performers as Yusef Lateef, Sam Jones, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan and so many others from that prosperous golden age of jazz in the Motor City. His longtime associations with many a jazz legend--including Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley and Oscar Peterson--have solidified Hayes' ...

Louis Hayes Smokes!

by AAJ Staff
November 3, 2003

Louis Hayes' Cannonball Legacy Band Smoke New York, NY November 1, 2003

New York City's got a hot jazz nightclub called “SMOKE", located at 105th & Broadway. www.smokejazz.com. SMOKE Jazz Club and Lounge has been around since 1999 and today presents perhaps the swinging-est jazz jam in the City every Monday night. “We are proud to announce that SMOKE is now smoke-free, so if you're gonna have a cigarette, please step outside," the MC ...