Kenny Powell

Tubby Hayes: No Blues: The Complete Hopbine '65

by Chris May
July 4, 2023

"Who the fuck are you?" said Tubby Hayes, encountering Ron Mathewson on the bandstand of London's Hopbine club an hour or so before the start of the gig which this album chronicles. “I'm the bassist," said just turned twenty-one year old Mathewson, who had been booked to deputise for the Hopbine's regular bassist that night. “Well, we'll see about that, won't we?" said Hayes. So began a relationship in which Mathewson ...