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Artist:Tubby Hayes.

Saxophonist Tubby Hayes made history in 1961 as the first English jazz soloist to officially perform in an American club.

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Here is part two of Simon Spillett’s sleeve notes for the now out-of-print 'Tubby Hayes: The Complete Fontana Albums 1961-69'

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TUBBY HAYES

THE COMPLETE FONTANA RECORDINGS 1961-1969

'They say you can’t sell British jazz in Britain - not the modern stuff. That’s not quite true. With someone like Tubby, who now has an international reputation, sales are healthy enough. He is, in fact, the modern star name among European jazzmen.'

Jack Baverstock,Crescendo, June 1963

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It was exactly this sort of thinking that had made Hayes' relationship with the UK record industry hitherto an inconsistent one. The briefest of précis' of his talents and career-achievements up to the late-1950s gives more than enough detail to realise why his was a talent already straining at the leash of localism; precociously gifted, Hayes the boy-wonder tenor saxoph

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“Tubby Hayes' work beyond 1956 is outside the scope of this retrospective and the story of triumphant years ahead, the Jazz Couriers, the international acclaim of working and recording in America, appearing with Duke Ellington, leading his own big band and becoming a successful composer and arranger, and his untimely tragic death at the age of 38, have been told many times elsewhere. The unifying threads of Tubby Hayes' career, from its start as a teenage prodigy to its end as a youthful veteran, from his early work as a promising wunderkind to his finding a mature voice, were his enthusiasm for his art, his infectious desire to play, his supreme confidence, virtually unique in British jazz circles during his formative years, and the high affectionate regard in which he was held by colleagues and fans alike. Tubby Hayes' success was all the more remarkable when one considers the not always conducive musical environment in which he began his career. He not only became a truly world class jazzman in the somewhat bland and opaque world of 1950s Britain but his memory and music continues to be respected and revered half a century later, and deservedly so. Any one of the tracks on this antholog

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