To understand a little of the importance of tonight, Louis Hayes at age 18 replaced Art Blakey in Horace Silver's quintet when Hard Bop and Funk Bop and Soul Jazz were making a audience-centric directional turn from the BeBop era (with more experimental, exploratory, artist-centric, turns being made by Trace, Cecil, Ornette, and others). Louis was right there at this nexus. He played with Cannonball Adderly's Quintet on what has been called the first "soul-jazz" album, "The Cannonball Adderly Quintet Live in San Francisco" (which ushered in it's own era of music and live, audience-included, recording). Here are a few links that helped me:
- Louis Hayes Biography
- Wikipedia - Soul Jazz
- Wikipedia - Hard Bop
- Wikipedia - Horace Silver - 6 Pieces of Silver (featuring Senor Blues)
- Wikipedia - The Cannonball Adderly Quintet Live in San Francisco