Hayes Greenfield

Hayes or Haze Greenfield (born July 7, 1957 as Harold Greenfield) is an American jazz saxophonist (alto and C-melody saxophone), arranger, film composer, teacher, and author.

Biography

Early life Greenfield was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and began playing piano aged five, drums aged 10, and saxophone from the age of 15. and then studied at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Jazz critic Len Dobbin described it as an "impressive debut". One reviewer described the songs as "surprisingly palatable", while the jazz was "hot – and very cool". In 1997, he founded Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, a music education program which provides workshops and interactive concerts for children, in which about 20,000 children participate each year across the United States. including theme songs from The Flintstones and The Simpsons. Greenfield has also worked as artist-in-residence at schools. In 2024 he published Creative Sound Play for Young Learners – A Teacher's Guide to Enhancing Transition Times, Classroom Communities, SEL, and Executive Function Skills. 1988 – Sounds of Thought (Special Music Company) 1988 – Five for the City (Owl Time Line) 1998 – Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz (Baby Music Boom) with Richie Havens 2005 – Peace of Mind (Dots & Lines), with David Berkman, Cameron Brown and Mark Johnson 2007 – Duo + One (Survival Records, Dots & Lines) with Rashied Ali and Don Pate 2007 – Because of You! (Dots & Lines), with Neal Kirkwood, Ed Schuller and George Schuller 2023 – Lover to You (Sunnyside) with Dean Johnson

Collaborations

2015 – A Day in Brooklyn (Constant Sorrow) with Allen Lowe

Film scores

1994 – George Marshall & the American Century 1996 – Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook 2014 – The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams, Architect 2015 – Aurora Borealis 2015 – Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision 2023 – In Search of Resolution