139: Louis Hayes (Cannonball Adderly, Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson, etc.)
The Trap Set with Joe Wong
Joe Wong
4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Louis Hayes arrived in New York at age 19; and over the next 60 years amassed a staggeringly great body of work. His collaborators have included: Cannonball Adderly, Oscar Peterson, John Coltrane, and many more of the giants of modern music. Louis talks to Joe about growing up in Detroit, lessons in manhood from Papa Jo Jones, the difficulties that come from being an uncompromising artist, and his new album dedicated to the great Horace Silver.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Joe Wong. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers. |
| 0:20.0 | I want to play something for you. |
| 0:21.6 | I want to get my drummer on his name. |
| 0:25.6 | Spotlight. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm going I'm . |
| 0:38.3 | I'm You're hearing Bohemia After Dark by the Cannonball Adderly Quintet, |
| 1:07.9 | featuring my guest, Louis Hayes on drones. |
| 1:14.4 | Born in Detroit, Hayes arrived in New York at the age of 19 at the behest of Horace Silver. Over the subsequent six decades, he's amassed |
| 1:21.2 | an unimpeachably great body of work and has distinguished himself as one of the most important |
| 1:27.2 | drummers of all time. |
| 1:29.7 | He's collaborated with many of the musical giants of the latter half of the 20th century, |
| 1:34.3 | such as John Coltrane, Richard Davis, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Joe Henderson, Oscar Peterson, |
| 1:42.1 | Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell, and Cecil Taylor. |
| 1:45.0 | Since 1960, Lewis has also released 18 albums as a leader, the most recent of which, |
| 1:53.0 | Serenade for Horace, was released earlier this year on Blue Note. quote. The And now my conversation with the one and only Lewis Hayes. |
| 2:50.5 | I started playing piano first. |
| 2:52.6 | At first piano, when I was about six or seven. |
| 2:56.6 | And the piano of myself, I didn't straighten the heller and groove with the piano. |
| 3:02.6 | So the drums were there. |
| 3:06.6 | And I just started playing around with the drums were there and I just started playing around with the drums |
| 3:10.9 | and I liked the drums |
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