BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " LOUIS HAYES " IS AN AMERICAN JAZZ DRUMMER : " GOES INTO THE "HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

                   BLACK                   SOCIAL                 HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937, Detroit, Michigan) is an American jazz drummer.

Biography

His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio. His main influence was Philly Joe Jones and he was mentored by Papa Jo Jones.

Hayes led a band in Detroit as a teenager and worked with Yusef Lateef and Curtis Fuller from 1955 to 1956. His three most notable associations are 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 with Adderley and Peterson, and in freelance settings.

Hayes led a group at clubs in Detroit before he was 16. He moved to New York in August 1956 to replace Art Taylor in the Horace Silver Quintet and in 1959 joined the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, with which he remained until mid-1965, when he succeeded Ed Thigpen in the Oscar Peterson Trio. He left Peterson in 1967 and formed a series of groups, which he led alone or with others; among his sidemen were Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Kenny Barron, and James Spaulding. He returned to Peterson in 1971.

The Louis Hayes Sextet, which he formed in 1972, became in 1975 the Louis Hayes-Junior Cook Quintet and the Woody Shaw-Louis Hayes Quintet (Cook remained as a sideman until Rene McLean joined); in its last form the quintet played successful engagements throughout Europe and (without McLean) acted as the host group when, in 1976, Dexter Gordon visited the U.S. for the first time in many years. After Shaw left the group in 1977, Hayes continued to lead it as a hard-bop quintet.

From the 1970s onward, he led a variety of groups including a quintet co-led by Junior Cook and Woody Shaw. Hayes has appeared on many records throughout the years, and played with John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Hank Mobley, Booker Little, Tommy Flanagan, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Gary Bartz, and Tony Williams. He also led sessions for Vee-Jay (1960), Timeless (1976), Muse (1977), Candid (1989), Steeplechase (1989–1994), and TCB (2000–2002). Today^[when?] he mentors young jazz artists, and continues to perform with a variety of other musicians both old and young.

He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for over three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band.

Discography

As leader

• Louis Hayes Quintet, 1960, Vee Jay
• Breath of Life, 1974
• Ichi-Ban, 1976, Timeless Muse
• The Real Thing, 1977, Muse Records
• The Louis Hayes Group, Variety Is The Spice, 1979
• The Crawl, 1989
• Una Max, 1989
• Blue Lou, 1994
• Nightfall, 1994
• Light and Lively, 1994
• Louis At Large, 1996
• The Super Quartet, 2000
• Quintessential Lou, 2000
• The Candy Man, 2001
• Return of the Jazz Communicators, 2014 [Smoke Sessions]

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley

• In San Francisco (1959, Riverside)
• Them Dirty Blues (1960, Riverside)
• Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley (1961, Capitol Records)
• Nippon Soul (1963, Riverside)
• The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (1964, Riverside)
• Phenix (1975, Fantasy)

With Nat Adderley

• Work Song (1960, Riverside)
• Naturally! (1961, Jazzland)

With Gene Ammons

• Goodbye (Prestige, 1974)

With Kenny Burrell

• K. B. Blues (Blue Note, 1957 [1979])
• Bluesin' Around (Columbia, 1961 [1983])

With James Clay

• A Double Dose of Soul (Riverside, 1960)

With Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon

• True Blue (1976, Xanadu Records)
• Silver Blue (1976, Xanadu Records)

With John Coltrane

• Lush Life (1958, Prestige Records)
• The Last Trane (1958, Prestige Records)
• Coltrane Time (1958, United Artists Records, Blue Note Records)
• The Cats (album) (1957, Prestige Records, Uncredited)
• The Believer (1963, Prestige Records)

With Richard Davis

• Muses for Richard Davis (MPS, 1969)

With Kenny Drew

• Undercurrent (1960, Blue Note)

With Curtis Fuller

• New Trombone (Prestige, 1957)
• Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (New Jazz, 1957 [1962])
• Jazz ...It's Magic! (Regent, 1957)
• Curtis Fuller Volume 3 (1957, Blue Note)

With Terry Gibbs

• Take It from Me (Impulse!, 1964)

With Dexter Gordon

• Ca'Purange (Prestige, 1972)
• Tangerine (Prestige, 1972)

With Bennie Green

• Back on the Scene (1958, Blue Note)

With Grant Green

• Gooden's Corner (1961, Blue Note)
• Oleo (album) (1962, Blue Note)

With Barry Harris

• Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (Riverside, 1960)

With Joe Henderson

• The Kicker (1967, Milestone)
• Tetragon (1968, Milestone)

With Sam Jones

• The Soul Society (Riverside, 1960)
• The Chant (Riverside, 1961)
• Changes & Things (Xanadu, 1977)

With Clifford Jordan

• Cliff Craft (Blue Note, 1957)
• Inward Fire (Muse, 1978)

With Yusef Lateef

• Jazz for the Thinker (Savoy, 1957)
• Jazz Mood (Savoy, 1957)
• Before Dawn: The Music of Yusef Lateef (Verve, 1957)

With Johnny Lytle

• Nice and Easy (Jazzland, 1962)

With Jackie McLean

• Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957)

With Freddie Redd

• Shades of Redd (1960, Blue Note)

With Woody Shaw

• The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage (Muse, 1976)

With Horace Silver

• 6 Pieces of Silver (1956, Blue Note)
• The Stylings of Silver (1957, Blue Note)
• Blowin' the Blues Away (1959, Blue Note)

With Sonny Stitt

• 12! (Muse, 1972)

With McCoy Tyner

• Uptown/Downtown (1988, Milestone Records)

With Cedar Walton

• A Night At Boomers, Vol. 1 (Muse, 1973)
• A Night At Boomers, Vol. 2 (Muse, 1973)
• Firm Roots (Muse, 1974 [1976])
• Pit Inn (East Wind, 1974)

With Phil Woods

• Four Altos (Prestige, 1957) - with Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, and Hal Stein

With The Young Lions

• The Young Lions (1960) Vee-Jay Records