Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes: The Tour, Volume 2 (CD)

Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes: The Tour, Volume 2 (CD) In July 2016, I posted about a previously unreleased live album by the Louis Hayes-Junior Cook Quintet featuring Woody Shaw. It was recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 22, 1976. The excellent album was entitled The Tour: Volume One, which teased the release of subsequent installments. Well, That day has arrived. The Tour: Volume Two, was recently released and it's even better than the first, if that's possible. It was recorded in March 1976 at a series of European concert venues, including Graz, Austria; Bremen, Munich and Wackerhalle, Germany; and Heist op den Berg in Belgium.Trumpeter Woody Shaw was a sideman on the tour by one of the era's steamiest quintets. Drummer Hayes and tenor saxophonist Cook first recorded together when tget were members of the Horace Silver Quintet in 1958. The appeared on Silver's Finger Poppin' and Blowin' the Blues Away (both 1959) and toured with Silver's quintet. Hayes and Cook were together ag