Jazz Articles about Tubby Hayes

Tubby Hayes: The Little Giant

by Chris May
February 19, 2007

This is the kind of niche market compilation which gives reissue companies operating outside the fifty-year copyright rule a good name. This lovingly put together, decently remastered, comprehensively annotated, four-disc set focuses on the breakthrough years of one of the most fecund and formidable tenor saxophonists Britain has ever produced.

Tubby Hayes--a child prodigy who took up the saxophone at the age of twelve and was a full-time professional at fifteen--came to national prominence in the late 1950s as a ...

Tubby Hayes: Commonwealth Blues and Addictive Tendencies

by Donald Elfman
May 28, 2006

Tubby Hayes Commonwealth Blues Art of Life 2005 Tubby Hayes Addictive Tendencies Rare Music Recordings 2005 Tubby Hayes essentially put British jazz players on the map. In his short life and career he actively pursued excellence on his instruments (tenor sax, flute and vibes) and as a composer. Aficionados are finally discovering or re-discovering ...

Tubby Hayes: 100% Proof

by Roger Farbey
August 6, 2005

Tubby Hayes 100% Proof Fontana 1966/2005 “But being as this is 100% Proof, the most powerful big band album in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk? As a jazz fan himself, I'm sure Clint 'Dirty Harry' Eastwood wouldn't object too much to the plagiarising and adaptation of one of his most famous ...

Tubby Hayes: Mexican Green

by Roger Farbey
July 28, 2005

Tubby Hayes Mexican Green Fontana 1968/2005 Recorded in February and March 1967 and released in the following year when in the USA the tectonic plates of jazz had already started to shift, Mexican Green was a tour de force recording for Edward Brian 'Tubby' Hayes. Actually it was a remarkable album for anyone to have made. Tubby Hayes was at that time the premier tenor player in the UK as was signalled ...