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Kevin Hays

Kevin Hays is a pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, bandleader, and educator whose work moves among jazz trios, collaborative groups, and songs.

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Photo source · Photo: Dani Case, via Kevin Hays’s official biography

Career Overview

About Kevin Hays

Hays’s official biography describes a pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter whose early Blue Note recordings led to work with Sonny Rollins, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, John Scofield, and other leaders. It also documents later collaborations with Brad Mehldau, Lionel Loueke, and Steve Gadd.[1]

His artist-authorized catalogs separate the New Day Trio from duo and collective projects. North records the trio with Rob Jost and Greg Joseph, Hope pairs Hays with Loueke, and All Things Are brings Hays together with Ben Street and Billy Hart.[1][2][3][4]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, pianist, composer, and vocalist

Kevin Hays New Day Trio

The trio gives Hays a setting for original songs, instrumental writing, and interpretations documented on North.[2]

Co-leader, pianist, vocalist, and composer

Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke

The duo project combines Hays’s piano and voice with Loueke’s guitar, voice, and rhythmic language on Hope.[1][3]

Co-leader and pianist

Hays Street Hart

The collective trio with Ben Street and Billy Hart documents another acoustic setting separate from Hays’s New Day group.[4]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2016

North

New Day Trio leader, pianist, composer, and vocalist

North presents Hays with bassist Rob Jost and drummer Greg Joseph in his song- and composition-centered trio.[2]

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2019 · Edition Records

Hope

Co-leader with Lionel Loueke

The duo album brings together Hays and Loueke as instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, and arrangers.[1][3]

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2021

All Things Are

Co-leader and pianist with Ben Street and Billy Hart

The collective trio recording places Hays’s piano with Street’s bass and Hart’s drums in an acoustic program.[4]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Hear Hays’s New Day Trio and other artist-authorized leader recordings with full credits.

Hope with Lionel Loueke

Stream the complete Hays-Loueke duo album through its label-authorized Bandcamp edition.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

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Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography and collaboration history

    Kevin Hays

  2. [2] Official New Day Trio recording catalog

    Kevin Hays

  3. [3] Hope duo stream and personnel

    Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke

  4. [4] All Things Are stream and trio personnel

    Hays Street Hart