Classic Louis Hayes in the UK with Cannonball Adderly, Charles Lloyd, Joe Zawinul and Sam Jones

Louis Sedell Hayes was born on 31 May 1937, in Detroit Michigan, USA. Louis began playing drums at a very early age, by his mid teens he was leading his own band in Detroit. Shortly afterwards he teemed up with Yusef Lateef and has never looked back. Moving to New York while still a teenager, in 1956, he joined the Horace Silver Quintet, and for the next two years when he wasnt touring and recording with Horace, Louis recorded with John Coltrane and numerous other jazz greats. In 1959 Louis went on to join Cannonball Adderleys quintet touring worldwide and recording with the group until 1965 when he joined the Oscar Peterson Trio with whom he toured and recorded for the next two years. From the fifties to date Louis Hayes has recorded with, and played beside, a veritable whos who in jazz, to name just a few, Yusef Lateef, Bobby Timmons, Hank Jones, Sony Rollins, Sam Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Barron, Victor Feldman, Percy H