Alvin Hayes

Alvin Hayes released many albums of mainstream jazz in the ’70s and ’80s, usually fronting a medium-sized combo merging his own saxophone and flute solos with drums, guitars, and keyboards, the obligatory synthesizer invited obviously. Star Gaze handled the 21st placement in Billboard magazine’s set of the top modern jazz albums, while following year’s follow-up, entitled Enthusiasm Flower, bloomed actually farther up the road, completely to the evidently not necessarily unlucky quantity of 13. There is certainly some desire for these recordings among the acidity jazz and easy jazz camps in the brand new millennium, non-etheless the discography of Hayes provides appearance of experiencing undergone among mad genius Dr. Mabuse’s key plots of removal. Used record hemorrhoids have already been scrubbed free from these sides, as though somebody with hip flavor was scouring aside the fusion residue from the ’80s. Online public sale houses feature having copies, however won’t post pictures from the addresses. Discographers appear to possess agreed inside a summit conference to disregard the name totally, probably so they don’t spend hours fixing typos for trombonist Alvin Hayse. Hayes’ rings, associated with both Palo Alto and TBA brands, included guitarist Scott Carter.