Jazz Articles about Jazz Couriers

Jazz Couriers featuring Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes: Some of My Best Friends

by Ronan Abayawickrema
April 1, 2000

Although the Jazz Couriers are widely held to be the finest and most influential of British bebop/hard-bop bands, little recorded material by the group has been available in recent years. Add to this the paucity of available solo releases by the two men who led the Couriers, tenor saxophonist and vibraphonist Tubby Hayes and fellow tenor player Ronnie Scott, and you have two good reasons why this reissue from Ember Records, which pairs the band's debut studio session from August ...