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Simon Spillett Big Band Plays Tubby Hayes, Album Launch Concert
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NEW UK JAZZ LABEL CELEBRATES
TUBBY HAYES WITH DEBUT RELEASE
LAUNCH GIG, 229 LONDON W1
Monday December 11th
In all its vibrant and diverse history, British jazz has produced a number of musicians who can truly be considered iconic, none more so than the virtuoso saxophonist, composer, and arranger Tubby Hayes. Hayes was arguably the first and one of very few British jazz stars to crack America. He was invited to perform and record there as a star soloist in his own right, an honour accorded to very few British jazz instrumentalists..
Now, fifty years after Hayes’s untimely death aged just 38, a new recording has arrived which presents twelve of his big band compositions and arrangements recorded for commercial release for the very first time.
The Tubby Hayes Big Band first appeared in the early 1960s and performed sporadically right up until Hayes’s passing in 1973. During that time the band produced just two albums, ‘Tubbs Tours’ and ‘100% Proof’. A consequence of this very small output is that the vast majority of Tubby’s big band repertoire was never commercially recorded.
Until now.
Simon Spillett, himself a virtuoso tenor saxophonist in the Hayes tradition, has performed the seemingly impossible task of tracking down the lost big band music of Tubby Hayes. Fellow musicians and relatives of Hayes’s long passed contemporaries were instrumental in facilitating this search. The music has been recovered, restored and recorded by a team of A-list British jazz stars and the album ‘Dear Tubby H’ is released now on Mister PC Records.
NEW UK JAZZ LABEL CELEBRATES
TUBBY HAYES WITH DEBUT RELEASE
LAUNCH GIG, 229 LONDON W1
Monday December 11th
In all its vibrant and diverse history, British jazz has produced a number of musicians who can truly be considered iconic, none more so than the virtuoso saxophonist, composer, and arranger Tubby Hayes. Hayes was arguably the first and one of very few British jazz stars to crack America. He was invited to perform and record there as a star soloist in his own right, an honour accorded to very few British jazz instrumentalists..
Now, fifty years after Hayes’s untimely death aged just 38, a new recording has arrived which presents twelve of his big band compositions and arrangements recorded for commercial release for the very first time.
The Tubby Hayes Big Band first appeared in the early 1960s and performed sporadically right up until Hayes’s passing in 1973. During that time the band produced just two albums, ‘Tubbs Tours’ and ‘100% Proof’. A consequence of this very small output is that the vast majority of Tubby’s big band repertoire was never commercially recorded.
Until now.
Simon Spillett, himself a virtuoso tenor saxophonist in the Hayes tradition, has performed the seemingly impossible task of tracking down the lost big band music of Tubby Hayes. Fellow musicians and relatives of Hayes’s long passed contemporaries were instrumental in facilitating this search. The music has been recovered, restored and recorded by a team of A-list British jazz stars and the album ‘Dear Tubby H’ is released now on Mister PC Records.
7:30 pm
All seats £28 inc booking fee
All seats £28 inc booking fee
229 GREAT PORTLAND STREET London W1W 5PN
Mon 11 Dec 2023
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www.petecater.org