Communicating the beat with jazz drummer Louis Hayes

At 75, jazz drummer Louis Hayes shows little sign of slowing down. This Friday and Saturday, he and his Jazz Communicators will rock Bohemian Caverns with some energetic live jazz.

He has been at it for a long time now, having begun his professional career at age 18 in his hometown of Detroit. He cut his teeth with tenor saxophonist, flautist and oboist Yusef Lateef and soon found himself performing with groups lead by piano players Horace Silver and Oscar Peterson. As a side man, he recorded with the likes of saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, George Benson and Freddie Hubbard.