Tubby Hayes Big Band - The Inner Splurge 1969

[sopwithcamels266]

Yeah, Tubby Hays and the band cooking,Tubby blowing a storm.None are these cats are second rate.They mean business excellent.

Yeah Iv'e traded notes with Pete king a few times over last twenty years.Pete king another great great player.

Unwittingly Tubbys music explaining the mood of the country and the London scene at that time. The kids at college take note.

[kaferere]

Tubby's improvisation was so melodic. That kind of instant harmonic knowledge, not just a bag of phrases he pulled out like some players. My favourite soloist since I first heard him in the early sixties. The only other guy who was melodic in this way in my opinion was Kenny Burrel and maybe Mel Rhyne. Terrific stuff, Thanks for posting.

[sirtubbyhayes]

Fantastic band - even more fantastic band leader - Hayes played with such power, poise and elegance.

[aronottignon]

you kiwi massive . BRIAN SMITH representing!!!

[swingmanic]

British jazz at its best without a doubt!..Makes me feel proud to be a Brit and to know that we were holding our own with the guys across the pond!

Many thanks for sharing jossydog.

[smoothvelvetsinger]

Tubby was truly a virtuoso. Fine band as well. Really good stuff.

[bopkick5]

dese peeple iz really svinging . i luv tubby hayes he iz well proper peeple - - - get wif da program wif de juzz buffos. dig it mon

[5525525525]

Not many have pased the musicianship of these guys, especially Tubby. But he could do the ballads aswell, witness "You Know I Care".

Love the free jazz stuff at 6.30. Archaic these days and some would say the destruction of progressive jazz but Tubby kind of made it acceptable.

[saxforth]

Thanks, Moglider. I recognized his sound; I really loved his rendition of "Summer of '42" with Maynard's band. A good buddy of mine said that when Cannonball passed, Pete King was Nat's first choice. I'm not a bit surprised.

[saxforth]

Legend has it that Tubby Hayes came to NYC in the early 60's as a relatively unknown player, but it about a two week period had sat in all over town and kicked some serious ass...what a loss. Pardon my ignorance of British azzers, but is the lead alto player Peter King? Please past if you know. Thanks for sharing this great video!!

[MOGLIDER]

That is the the marvellous Peter King on alto.More clips of his playing are on Youtube.You're welcome.

[d51386]

A teacher at my school about 6 years ago, is the brother of Leo Green, owner of Ronnie's today. I remember him saying there were things like this hanging around just waiting to be seen by the masses. How right he was, this is fantastic!

And yeah, that is some rapid guitar work.

Thank you so much jossydog.

[MOGLIDER]

Blues for Pipkins is a Tubby composition.

The Sussex Jazz Orch.have it in their book.

They play at the Hare & Hounds,Preston Circus, Brighton,3rd Sun every month,4pm.

Alan Skidmore was guest soloist yesterday.

[MOGLIDER]

The first piece is Blues for Pipkins.

Is it a Tubby composition?

It is followed by The Inner Splurge.

Thanks for this to the Sussex Jazz Orchestra of which Ian Hamer was a founder member

[mojoelem]

Louis Stewart is really moving on this clip! jossydog..thank you so much. This has that uniquely British feel to it. Tubby was just beyond words...a real gentleman. So underrated. I still miss his sound today.

[chuckdee121]

Tubby Hayes was told by doctors to stop playing sax. He literally died as a result of his love for music. I think he also was using heroin, but, he sure was fantastic, and this clip is absolute magic!

[mojoelem]

chuckdee121: I recall seeing Tubby walking past Soho just before he passed away. I remember vividly his shoes had huge holes in them and his eyes were sunken. He struggled with smack for yrs. His sound was as big as Dexter Gordon or any other American player.

[deangelico]

What a wonderful treat this is,thank you for posting this. one correction, I believe it should be the wonderful Dave Horler on trombone( brother of John)may just be a typing error. what a great big band this was. nice to see how highly Tubby regarded Louis, I know the feeling was mutual

[ColmOSullivanRed]

This video came to light, some years ago now - and just shortly before his untimely death - through the kind intervention of the great Mick Pyne, who put me in touch with drummer Peter Cater, who so kindly supplied the tape! We've been able to restore it to the BBC archives as well as share it here now.

[Rogerviol]

Many thanks jossydog for putting this clip onto You Tube. It's really fantastic and a very rare opportunity for those of us too young (just) to have caught this live performance from his equally rare album 200% Proof. What a brilliant band this was and what a terrible loss to jazz was the untimely demise of Tubby Hayes.

[MrNoChops]

Hey Colm! Gald you've shared this with everybody. Pete C.

[jossydog]

I believe the line up is as follows:

Trumpets: Greg Bowen, Les Condon, Ian Hamer, Henry Shaw

Trombones: Keith Christie, David Herler, Jim Wilson

Saxes: Tubby, Peter King, Harry, Klein, Alan Skidmore, Brian Smith.

Guitar: Louis Stewart

Piano: Mike Pyne

Bass: Ron Matthewson

Drums: Spike Wells

[bradandfudge]

It would be interesting to know who the musicians were, compared with those on the recordings I posted from the 1964 BBC Jazz 625 recordings. I hope the audience managed to keep hold of their ears after that piece !!