Tubby Hayes? Who he? Hoo hah? And he's a Brit? Can't play for shit, right?
Unlikely as it may seem Hayes was a truly great tenor player. Ronnie Scott (showrunner of the UK's most important jazz club - take a wild geuss what it was called) said: "This little boy came up, not much bigger than his tenor sax. Rather patronisingly I suggested a number and off he went. He scared me to death".
One of the very few UK players to hold his own in the US and A, Hayes cut some iconic classic sides [NB jazzbo terms "cut" and "sides" - Ed.] with American superstars, like this here album. You really, really, don't have to be a serious collector of jazz records - or anything - to enjoy this swell album. It's full of energy and happiness and swings like a donkey's nuts. Give Davis [Miles - Ed.] and John [Coltrane - Ed.] a rest for a while. Spin this on th' Consolette next time unexpected guests drop by! Roll back the rug and strut whatever stuff you can muster after a lifetime of debauchery and excess!
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'Fess up - what was the last jazz album you lissened to? I'm not here to judge.
ReplyDeletethe Dizzy Gillespie collection from the Ken Burns deal...swing low sweet caddy indeed
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DeleteYesterday i listened to the Keith Jarrett album called "Arbour Zena" with Claus Ogerman orchestral charts etc. I believe its from the late 1970's. Very Interesting departure of sorts for Jarrett, but I really like it. I was putting together information for this year's tax return while listening and I found it had a bit of a calming effect.
ReplyDeleteMoacir Santos and the criminally unknown lp, Coasis. Seriously, its that good. https://mega.nz/folder/4u52SDCS#navaCYPXkzKExDAYh86Vsw
ReplyDeleteOKAY AWREADY! I HEAR YA! Whaddya think of my man Tubs? What's that? Which I ain't uploaded th' album yet?
DeleteVery familar with Tubs and that specific lp - huge Clark Terry fan. Tubs was a damn good performer, and there's a live lp of one of his Ronnie Scott's gigs that is def worth a listen, "Modes and Blues - Live at Ronnie Scotts, 1964." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFWInL-i0zc
DeleteI'm playing your album as we speak - I think it should come with a warning that you need a bikini wax before listening.
Delete... and here, for those of us who care about the environment, it is at a sustainable 192:
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https://pixeldrain.com/u/cUQubar8
ReplyDeleteMusic for the films of Johan van der Keuken by Willem Breuker
"Duke Elegant" Dr John NA all over it.
ReplyDeleteMm ... nice!
DeleteI’ve been driving a bit this week, and a Fela Kuti collection has been playing. At home Ian Carr’s Nucleus, a couple of the band joined Soft Machine I believe - see below.
ReplyDeletesome days the good lord giveth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ops4V7S9tsc&t=4s
DeleteEric, you're spoiling us.
Deletebill evans - album-EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS
ReplyDeletealso this is great music. considering how prolific he was it would be hard not to have a hayes album.
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteIf there's anything at all you want to know about Tubby just ask Simon Spillett (see Google).
Also take a look at the Jazz In Britain site
https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/inclusivity
for this bargain.
(By the way, whilst typing I am listening to "Concierto" by Jim Hall (plus Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, Roland Hanna, Ron Carter & Steve Gadd. Quite a line-up).
Cheers
Peanuts Molloy.
Like Minds - Gary Burton and heavy friends (Chic Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes). Nice!
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteHere's two from th' Tubster - the aforementioned, and Change Of Setting, with Paul Gonsalves, without which no serious jazz collection is complete, etcetera.
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Last night I listened to ‘Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas Vol.1’. Yes, really, I use it as a lullaby. Most people would probably be upright in bed at the first note and at least call the fire brigade. But free jazz is now my favourite music (well, I started listening to it when I was 17). And yes, Tubby Hayes is a great tenor player.
ReplyDeleteFree jazz, huh?
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-shameful-cost-of-free-jazz.html
Would Tubby Hayes be any relation to Gabby Hayes? Asking for a friend (as if I had one)
ReplyDeleteFrom Wiki: "Tubby Hayes, son of film actor 'Gabby' Hayes, was a child actor in TV series such as Pet Store, and My Errant Husband, before choosing music as a career."
DeleteSo yes, he was!
Wasn't he a pioneer of gay marriage with his Hubby Hayes? Asking for a (sex) fiend.
DeleteC in California
Frank Morgan - Listen to the Dawn
ReplyDeleteI think that Frank Morgan, who, following a period of emotional and personal decline, has regained hold of his life and released one beguiling album after another. The latest, Listen to the Dawn, is no exception, summing up the warmth and spirituality of the reborn Morgan."[4] Mind you, that's just me.
DeleteHmm, not sure if this ticks all the True-Jazz boxes but it's principally reeds and piano with not much evidence of being scored - Liudas Mockunas & Ryoji Hojito - 'Vacation Music'.
ReplyDeleteAlso been digging YT-grabs with Benoit Delbecq's involvement, Charles Gayle 'Touchin On Trane', and Douglas Ewart at the 1980 Chicago Jazz Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjzoTmIFglE
DeleteHmm.
I had no idea there was video footage of this (ahem) quirky coupling - I bought the much much better-sounding d/l off Bandcamp ages ago and only got round to it recently. Such stuff isn't for for everyone - in fact it's not even for me a lot of the time.
DeleteTubs was a capable vibraphone player too IIRC.
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