Tubby Hayes sister's friend

danasgoodstuff · January 5, 2008

There's this nice older British lady who's a regular at the library where I work and we sometimes discuss jazz CDs. So the other day she asks me if I know who Tubby Hayes is so I say sure and then she tells me they went to school together and she's looking for recordings he's on to send to his sister so I recomend the Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select. Thing is I think there's something else he's a sideman on that either I or the library might have but I can't think of what that might be...didn't we have a thread discussing all the records Tubby is on? I could just look it up but I thought y'all might find this small world moment interesting.

Edited January 5, 2008 by danasgoodstuff

sidewinder · January 5, 2008

There's this nice older British lady who's a regular at the library where I work and we sometimes discuss jazz CDs. So the other day she asks me if I know who Tubby Hayes is so I say sure and then she tells me they went to school together and she's looking for recordings he's on to send to his sister so I recomend the Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select. Thing is I think there's something else he's a sideman on that either I or the library might have but I can't think of what that might be...didn't we have a thread discussing all the records Tubby is on? I could just look it up but I thought y'all might find this small world moment interesting.

Possibly you might be thinking of 'Tubbs In New York' (with Clark Terry) and 'Return Visit' (with James Moody and Rahsaan Roland Kirk) which are Tubbs albums but with American names and recorded in NYC. Both originally issued on Fontana vinyl and reissued on CD by Universal UK. Dusty usually has them.

I can heartily recommend all of the Fontana albums, including the various big band albums ('Tubbs', 'Tubbs Tours', '100% Proof', 'The Orchestra') and the small group sessions (inc. 'Mexican Green', 'Late Spot at Scotts' and 'Down In The Village'). Most are on CD apart from 'The Orchestra' (the weakest of the batch in jazz terms but still well worth a listen).

Tubbs was born in London so must have gone to school somewhere in that area.

Edited January 5, 2008 by sidewinder

danasgoodstuff · January 16, 2008

sidewinder,

thanx muchly for the timely reply, I don't have those mentioned, I was thinking maybe there was a sideman date I'd forgotten. kinda surprised this small world moment didn't provoke more coment from y'all...

dana

Edited January 16, 2008 by danasgoodstuff