Tubby Hayes

Tubby Hayes – Tubbs (Remastered 2019) (1961/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:01 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)

Belated Christmas presents for fans of the late, great Brit-jazz tenorist Tubby Hayes as Universal have announced the arrival of selected remastered albums.

The tapes were in perfect condition and had never been played since the recording, with reports suggesting the music ranks as highly as Hayes’ classic albums 100% Proof and Mexican Green. Alongside this the label also possesses all of the original tapes for Hayes’ 11 Fontana albums, plus lots of out-takes and never before issued material, all of which will be remastered and reissued in one mighty Tubby Hayes on Fontana box set.

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Tubby Hayes – Grits, Beans And Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:42:01 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fontana

“Tubby Hayes is undoubtedly one of the most important, influential and ground-breaking UK jazz musicians of all time. During the ‘50s and early ‘60s, Hayes had stood apart from many of his UK-based contemporaries, displaying a self-confidence and virtuoso musical delivery that placed him neck-and-neck with many of the leading American jazzmen of the day. He worked with the likes of Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington and his many fans included Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and Sonny Rollins. He had his own primetime TV show and was the face of UK jazz.

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Tubby Hayes – Tubbs In N.Y. (Remastered 2019) (1962/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:59 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)

Belated Christmas presents for fans of the late, great Brit-jazz tenorist Tubby Hayes as Universal have announced the arrival of selected remastered albums.

The tapes were in perfect condition and had never been played since the recording, with reports suggesting the music ranks as highly as Hayes’ classic albums 100% Proof and Mexican Green. Alongside this the label also possesses all of the original tapes for Hayes’ 11 Fontana albums, plus lots of out-takes and never before issued material, all of which will be remastered and reissued in one mighty Tubby Hayes on Fontana box set.

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Tubby Hayes – Modes and Blues – Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964 (2017/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:59 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records

This is a previously unreleased mono recording of Modes and Blues from the Tubby Hayes Quintet’s weekly Ronnie Scott s residency on 8th February 1964. Regarded as one of the masterworks of British modern jazz, Modes and Blues shows the Quintet at the very height of its powers, channelling the new musical flavours and inspiration that Tubby Hayes had absorbed from the cutting edge of jazz and the new directions of John Coltrane. Recorded with Hayes’ approval by Les Tomkins on his Ferrograph tape recorder, this is one of the most engrossing of all his stretch-out epics. Hayes digs in deep with marathon and breathtaking soloing, trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar delivers his characteristically lyrical improvisation, and there’s dynamic interplay and drive from the great Terry Shannon, Freddy Logan and Allan Ganley rhythm section. The Quintet had barely a few months left to run at the time of this performance, splitting in August 1964, fearing its music had atrophied into self-parody. ‘Modes and Blues’ is among its many triumphs, a performance that shows how high the band had set the aspirational bar for British modernism, and, as such, is as much a cultural document as a musical souvenir. Personnel: Tubby Hayes: flute, tenor saxophone; Jimmy Deuchar: trumpet; Terry Shannon: piano; Freddy Logan: double bass; Allan Ganley: drums. Vinyl mastering and cutting by Darrel Sheinman and Caspar Sutton-Jones at Gearbox Records from the original master tapes courtesy of Les Tomkins.
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Tubby Hayes – Seven Steps to Heaven – Live at the Hopbine 1972 (2013/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:19 minutes | 368 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records

This is the first ever commercial release of an important late period Tubby Hayes performance that fully captures the more restrained and subtler side of his robust talent. The repertoire comprises the well known standards he was favouring at that time, and in addition to Hayes’ remarkable tenor saxophone and flute solos there are exceptional performances by pianist Mike Pyne, double bassist Daryl Runswick and drummer Tony Oxley.
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Tubby Hayes – The Syndicate – Live at the Hopbine 1968 (2015/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:03 minutes | 730 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gearbox Records

This major release is a previously unavailable live performance from a great Tubby Hayes lineup that never made a commercially available album. Recorded on 5th December 1968 by Ted Lyons at the legendary Hopbine in North Wembley, The Syndicate reveals Hayes’ new quartet that featured the spectacular Dublin born guitarist Louis Stewart and 22 year old drummer Spike Wells, with Kenny Baldock standing in for regular double bassist Ron Mathewson. With detailed sleeve notes by tenor saxophonist and Hayes biographer Simon Spillett, The Syndicate now fills an aching gap in Hayes’ discography and our understanding of his remarkable musical journey.
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