Electro-Acoustic Musician, Composer, Educator, Activist, and Author
Highlights Since the Pandemic
2025
Hayes’ latest recording on Sunnyside Records Gravity Unplugged is Now Available for Streaming and Downloads at:
Hayes Greenfield’s Gravity Unplugged is an unpredictable and adventurous electro-acoustic journey through standard jazz repertoire and free jazz improvisation. Hayes on alto saxophone and effects leads a highly versatile chord-less trio, featuring Ariel De La Portilla on upright bass and either Chuck Palmer or Todd Turkisher on drums through shifting improvisations, well known tunes and musical exchanges that titillates, challenges and delight the ears.
2024
Published by Routledge Taylor Francis
on their
Eye On Education Book Series
Creative Sound Play LTD, is a simple play-based method for using sound making– NOT music, that inspires children to collaborate and build community while they develop their active listening and social emotional learning skills, and executive function abilities – inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. All the necessary attributes that prepare children to succeed in school and in life. As importantly it helps teachers teach by enabling them to manage their classrooms better and suffer less burnout.
2023
Conferences I Presented Creative Sound Play at:
Hayes’ first Sunnyside Recording
Hayes Greenfield & Dean Johnson: Lover to You
Hayes’ first released on New York’s legendary Jazz label, Sunnyside Records, Lover to You, is the culmination of a decades-long partnership, where saxophone melodies intertwine seamlessly with the deep resonance of bass. This album is not just a collection of songs; it's a testament to the limitless possibilities of musical collaboration.
