Louis Hayes News

"The rhythm section is the essence of every style of music," the late Max Roach told me back in 1992.

With perfect temperatures and wall-to-wall sunshine, Detroit recently celebrated a tradition that has brought jazz to the city every Labor Day weekend for the past 30 years.

SOUL JAZZ OF THE 60s Music of Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver Featuring: Kenny Washington, Wess Warmdaddy Anderson, Nnenna Freelon, Louis Hayes, Nicholas Payton, Terell Stafford & More! Who/What: Jazz at Lincoln Center offers the soulful and swingin sounds of an explosive era in music with Soul Jazz of the 60s.

Here are some under-the-radar recommendations. Mike will give you the informed jazz choices; Meegan is not a student of jazz - her brain is just wired to love the music.

If drummer Louis Hayes intended to recreate the classic sounds of, well, Louis Hayes recordings on The Time Keeper , he succeeded.

The latest email newsletter from MAXJAZZ brings word that the St. Louis-based indie label will release CDs this fall from pianists Manuel Valera and Jeb Patton .

This seven-tune recording, which sat in the Blue Note vaults for four decades, catches the trumpeter at his creative best on the road with pianist Roland Hanna, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Louis Hayes.

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.

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the 18th & Vine ' Louis Hayes - The Time Keeper ' giveaway contest starting today.

Hayes often teamed up with Sam Jones, both with Adderley and Peterson and in freelance settings.

Louis Hayes at the 2005 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Hayes opens the 2009 Glenwood Springs Summer of Jazz Wednesday night, following a cancellation by the scheduled opener.

Blue Note Records Do you listen to the music of great jazz artists differently once they pass away? This newly-issued live date, with bassist Ron Carter , drummer Louis Hayes and the late pianist Sir Roland Hanna , may elicit nostalgia and sadness mixed with a spirit of wonder and startled appreciation of the recently departed trumpet master ...

Very few have the ability to be articulate - let alone entertaining - off the cuff.