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Louis Hayes
United States • b. 1937-05-31
Louis Hayes is credited on 2,457 releases across 441 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,457
Pressings credited
441
Albums
8
Decades active
438
In collections
Biography
Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer and band leader. He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for more than three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band. He is part of the NEA Jazz Masters awards class of 2023.
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Credited work
2,457 releases · 441 albums · active 1957–2025
- Performance · 2,823
- Other credits · 8
- Production · 6
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · MPS-Studio, Villingen · Plaza Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Giant Steps
1960
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
1963
Lush Life
1961
The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery
1960
Eastern Sounds
1962
Born To Be Blue
1985
6 Pieces Of Silver
1957
Know What I Mean?
1962
Dial "S" For Sonny
1957
First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings
2021
Blowin' The Blues Away
1959
The Cats
1959
The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973
Tetragon
1968
Take Twelve
1962
Further Explorations
1958
Undercurrent
1961
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet In San Francisco
1960
Hard Driving Jazz
1959
Blue & Sentimental
1963
Cannonball's Bossa Nova
1963
Plus
1961
That's My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues
1960
Phenix
1975
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