Kevin Hayes
Piano Solo on
Tribalism

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Kevin Hayes follows Joshua Redman with four choruses of piano on "Tribalism" at approximately 217 BPM, embracing the 24-bar form's modal character and percussive energy. His solo over the composition's unusual structure in G-flat minor demonstrates a willingness to engage with the tune's Afrocentric rhythmic and melodic ideas on their own terms, his playing both grounded and adventurous. As the second soloist after Redman's five-chorus tenor feature, Hayes brings a different harmonic perspective to the performance while maintaining the compositional intensity that makes this one of the debut album's most distinctive tracks.

Kevin Hayes was 23 to 24 years old at the time.