Results for "Louis Hayes"

Louis Hayes Quartet: San Diego CA, May 10, 2011

by Robert Bush
May 29, 2011

Louis Hayes Quartet Saville Theatre, San Diego City College San Diego, CAMay 10, 2011 Jazz legend Louis Hayes, a significant progenitor of modern percussion since the early 1950s, visited San Diego's Saville Theatre on May 10, and, with an elite group of local musicians, delivered a blistering set of post-bop, ...

Bohemia After Dark

Featuring the music of Louis Hayes
Duration: 5:16
May 11, 2011

Louis Hayes Jazz Communicators - Lou's Ideas (American Showplace, 2010)

February 19, 2011

Drummer Louis Hayes has one of the strongest hard-bop pedigrees in the music, with lengthy stints in the Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver bands during the 1950's and 60's before striking out to form his own groups. Recently he has been leading the successful Cannonball Legacy Band in addition to his own group which is featured ...

Smalls Jazz Club: Live and So Much More

by Mark Corroto
December 28, 2010

After a few minutes talking with pianist Spike Wilner, Charlie Parker's quote about authenticity in music comes to mind: “If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn..." Actually, the entirety of Bird's thoughts best captures the art of Spike Wilner. Bird goes on to state: “They teach you there's a boundary line ...

Interview: Louis Hayes (Part 2)

October 21, 2010

The more you listen to recordings by the Horace Silver Quintet in the 1950s, the more you realize that the group had two drummers: Silver's funky, rhythmic left hand on piano and Louis Hayes' sticks. As they played together, Silver and Hayes tended to feed off each other. Both kept time, but each tried to throw ...

Interview: Louis Hayes (Part 1)

October 20, 2010

During the hard bop era of the 1950s and early 1960s, the Horace Silver Quintet was the most sublime expression of the movement. While Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet certainly were spectacular ensembles, what both groups lacked was Silver's spirited writing, arranging and verve. From the summer of 1956 ...

Under the Big Top: Detroit's 31st Year Hits a High Note

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 5, 2010

31st Annual Detroit Intermational Jazz FestivalHart PlazaDetroit, MichiganSeptember 3-6, 2010Last year may have been their 30th anniversary year, but this past Labor Day weekend, The Detroit Jazz Festival pulled out all the stops for what had to be one of the most memorable line-ups of recent memory. Mother Nature would cooperate ...

Louis Hayes; Jammin' On The Hudson on August 15th

August 9, 2010

Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our sixth consecutive year are pleased to present: “Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! What could be more inviting than listening to the sounds of great Jazz Artists, cast out over The Hudson River, at sunset, for ...

Champian Fulton: The Breeze and I

by Jerry D'Souza
August 8, 2010

For anyone unfamiliar with her music, Champian Fulton is a delightful surprise--a waft of fresh air; a ray of sunshine that can brighten the darkest day. Fulton is a versatile pianist and singer who ingrains herself into the sentiment of a song. She has depth, emotional pitch and depth that rise to a high ...

Cecil Taylor at the Take 3, 1962-'63

by Robert Levin
July 24, 2010

The following is a chapter from “Going Outside: Fiction * Commentary * Jazz." robert-levin.com. In the summer of 1962, Cecil lands a three-month, four-night-a-week gig at The Take 3, a coffee house on Bleecker Street. It's right next door to The Bitter End where Woody Allen had performed just weeks ...