Louis Hayes & the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band at Yukon Arts Centre

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Jazz on the Wing Cabaret sponsored by Jazz Yukon
For more than forty years, drummer and bandleader Louis Hayes has been a catalyst for energetic, unrelenting swing. Hayes rhythmically propelled seminal jazz groups led by saxophonist/flautist Yusef Lateef, pianist Horace Silver, legendary saxophonist Cannonball Adderley and pianist Oscar Peterson. Hayes is heard on countless recordings on the Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside and other labels with the likes of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, J.J. Johnson, Thelonious Monk, Jackie McLean, Wes Montgomery, Cedar Walton, Dexter Gordon, Woody Shaw, George Benson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ravi Shankar, John Lee Hooker and McCoy Tyner – virtually a who’s who of jazz in America.