Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes' Album 'Artform Revisited' featured on WBGO's New Day, New Play July 29- Aug 2

Headliners at Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on August 23-25 include Christian McBride Big Band, Wallace Roney, Jr., Carmen Lundy, Louis Hayes, Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter’s SuperBlue with the HunterTones, and Helen Sung with Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few.

WBGO’s Gary Walker to spotlight drummer and NEA Jazz Master Louis Hayes’ new album ‘Exactly Right’ on his Daybreak show.

National Endowment for the Arts and The Kennedy Center to kickoff Jazz Appreciation Month with a special live stream of 2023

Louis Hayes spent his youth creating the pulse of hard-bop, as a top-shelf drummer with artists like Cannonball Adderley and Horace Silver. He turned 80…

Woody Shaw and Louis Hayes, “What’s New?”A little over 40 years ago, trumpeter Woody Shaw and drummer Louis Hayes formed a band with the stated intention…

The tracks in Take Five this week cover a range from heartsick to hopeful, from resigned to anything but. One track was recorded almost 80 years ago, but…

Drummer Louis Hayes will celebrate his 80th birthday at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola later this month. It’s also a CD-release party for his solo debut on Blue…

This week in Take Five: two boss tenors, in tracks both old and new. A free-thinking trumpeter with her dynamic debut. A veteran hard-bop drummer…

Louis Hayes has logged his share of session hours for Blue Note Records, as the impeccably swinging drummer for label stalwarts like Grant Green, Curtis…