American jazz drummer Louis Hayes was born in Detroit in 1937 and through his
parents' love of music - his father played drums and his mother the piano -
Hayes grew up listening to big bands and jazz. As one of America's most
respected jazz drummers, Hayes is best known for his work with Horace Silver's
Quintet, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet and The Oscar Peterson Trio.
As a young teenager he played in the clubs around Detroit working with names
such as Yusef Lateef and Curtis Fuller before moving to New York at the age of
19 to drum with Horace Silver's Quintet. After a num...