Results for "Ron Mathewson"

Ron Mathewson

Born: February 19, 1944

No Blues: The Complete Hopbine '65

By Tubby Hayes

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Night And Day; It Never Entered My Mind; I Remember You; On Green Dolphin Street. CD2: No Blues; What's New?; Have You Met Miss Jones?.

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 ...

The Complete Hopbine '69

By Tubby Hayes

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: For Members Only; Off The Wagon; Where Am I Going?; What Is This Thing Called Love. CD2: Mainly For The Don; For Heaven’s Sake; Vierd Blues; Walkin’.

Tubby Hayes Quartet: The Complete Hopbine '69

by Chris May
January 30, 2022

Of all the many talented jazz musicians who blazed trails in Britain in the late 1950s and 1960s, tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes in 2022 stands among the tallest. Hayes, too, is one of a handful of British musicians of his generation who have been practically deified by some of the emergent young players who are currently ...

Chronology: Live 1968 - 69

By Joe Harriott

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2021
Track listing: Psychedelic Sally; Down & Out; Chronology; Shadows; W.S.I.M.C.; Themeology; My Man's Gone Now.

Joe Harriott: Chronology: Live 1968 - 69

by Chris May
July 25, 2021

One of not-for-profit archive label Jazz In Britain's first releases in early 2020--then only on vinyl, but in summer 2021 reissued on CD—the Jamaican-born alto saxophonist and composer Joe Harriott's Chronology Live 1968—69 is also of interest for the spotlight it throws on another player who moved from his homeland to London in the 1950s, the ...

Tubby Hayes: Free Flight

by Chris May
April 3, 2021

Tenor saxophonist, flautist, vibraphonist and composer Tubby Hayes, who died at the unconscionably young age of thirty-eight in 1973, was that rare thing among the first generation of British jazz musicians in the 1960s—a player who was taken seriously by the hippest American musicians and audiences. He visited New York in 1961 and 1964 for well-received ...

Free Flight

By Tubby Hayes

Label: Jazz In Britain
Released: 2020
Track listing: CD1: I’ve Got You Under My Skin; Trane’s Blues; Someday My Prince Will Come; Seven Steps To Heaven (incomplete). CD2: Trenton Place; Lady Celia; I Thought About You; Sienna Red (incomplete).