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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Rhythm And Blues Records: Small But Perfectly Formed
by Duncan Heining
Back in 2007, music fan Nick Duckett walked into a record shop hoping to buy a comprehensive history of rhythm and blues on CD. To his surprise, the owner told him no such set existed at the time. Having a bit of time on his hands, Duckett thought to himself, Well, there bloody ought to be?" ...
Geoff Mason: GMQ
by Jack Bowers
Geoff Mason, one of the UK's leading jazz trombonists, mans the front line by himself on the slyly named GMQ, an eloquent quartet session from which Mason's longtime colleague, the outstanding saxophonist Simon Spillett, is regrettably missing. As nothing can be done to set that right, best to focus on the music at hand, which binds ...
Tubby Hayes: Split Kick - Live In Sweden 1972
by Bruce Lindsay
The hits, as various unimaginative DJs keep reminding us, just keep on coming. So, too--or so it appears--do new albums of material from the late Tubby Hayes. Some of these Hayes albums are re-releases, some are special editions" and some present us with previously unreleased tracks. Split Kick -Live In Sweden, 1972 is an example of ...
Tubby Hayes: A Man In A Hurry
by Bruce Lindsay
Tubby Hayes A Man In A Hurry Mono Media Films 2015 Tubby Hayes -the finest jazz musician Britain ever produced and one of the unheralded greats of the genre. Powerful claims, but there are plenty of jazz fans (not only in the UK) who're in favor of both of them: ...
Will The Real Joe Harriott Please Stand Up?
by Duncan Heining
The Jamaican saxophhonist Joe Harriott was, without doubt, one of the most important and innovative jazz musicians to emerge in Britain in the fifties and early sixties. He arrived in Britain in 1951 with Ozzie Da Costa's band, which was en route for an engagement in Germany playing US army bases. Much to his erstwhile boss's ...
Introducing Simon Spillett
Label: Woodville Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Make Someone Happy; Off The Wagon; Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most; Gee Cross; Another Setting; Nobody Else But Me; But Beautiful;
New Beginning; Howdy Doody; Cherokee.
Simon Spillett: Introducing Simon Spillett
by Roger Farbey
Simon Spillett's debut album clearly marks his preferred territory. Taking his cue from the late Tubby Hayes, he delivers the ten tracks as bold statements of intent and not merely space fillers. Spillett knows his music and has made an intelligent choice balancing barnstormers like the opener Make Someone Happy with exquisitely sublime ballads Spring Can ...