The telling of a story is always more authentic and compelling when it's told by a storyteller who was actually there. This is certainly the case with drummer Louis Hayes, who had the most to do with shaping the rhythm of Horace Silver's all-important hard-bop quintet from 1956 to 1959.
As I pointed out in my multipart interview with Louis in 2010, he wa…
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