Candid CJS 9554 / Pure Pleasure PPAN CJS9554 - 180 gram Vinyl
Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering London
Pressed at Pallas in Germany
Over the past decade there has been a small avalanche of previously unreleased live recordings by the late, great Tubby Hayes, arguably the UKs most accomplished post-war jazz instrumentalist and a figure already accorded - quite rightly - legendary status. Each has added much to our knowledge of Tubby's musical activities outside the recording studio, but this new release unearths a session which had lain forgotten since 1959 and which significantly is an addendum to what has long been seen as Tubby's first album masterpiece Tubby's Groove. Indeed the music contained on this LP is among the most significant pieces of British jazz history to have been discovered in a long, long time.
This new LP is every bit the equal of the original album and, as previously stated, in parts the music even outstrips its predecessor.
Regardless of provenance these rediscovered recordings are, in this writer's opinion, some of the most important of Tubby Hayes career and will doubtless only add to our appreciation and admiration of a player who was truly deserving of the status of world-class. Over fifty years on, Tubby's immense musicianship, talent and creative charisma can still stun new listeners and this new album is the perfect introduction to a performer in whom we can still be proud.
Simon Spillett
Personnel: Tubby Hayes, tenor saxophone /Terry Shannon, piano /
Jeff Clyne, bass/ Phil Seaman, drums
Produced by Jim Tomlinson
All arrangements by Jim Tomlinson & Stacey Kent except ‘S Wonderful by Simon Woolf.
Tracklisting
Side 1
1. Tin Tin Deo
2. Visa.
3. Supper At Phil’s
Side 2
1. Symphony
2. Hook’s Way
3. The Trolley Song
Recorded at Decca Studios, Broadhurst Gardens,
West Hampstead, London, December 1959
Original sessions produced by Tony Hall
Tape restoration by Malcolm Addey
Produced for release by Alan Bates
Recording Engineer: Michael Mailes