Tubby Hayes: Tubby's New Groove (Vinyl LP) [ vinyl ]

Over the past decade there has been a small avalanche of previously unreleased live recordings by the late, great Tubby Hayes, arguably the UK's 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 it's predecessor. Tin Tin Deo, Visa, Supper at Phil's, Symphony, Hook's Way, Trolley Song