Tubby Hayes big band album Rumpus whose personnel includes Kenny Wheeler and Irish jazz icon Louis Stewart is to be issued during the week Hayes would have turned 80.
Following news about the release of Symphony on marlbank last week there’s more Hayes on the way.
To be issued just days before what would have been the revered saxist’s 80th birthday on 30 January North Finchley-recorded big band album Rumpus featuring the Hayes big band in 1969 is now scheduled for release.
The label’s distributor ProperNote are indicating 26 January as release date.
Rumpus – with Hayes on tenor joined by Greg Bowen, Ian Hamer, Les Condon, Kenny Wheeler (trumpets), Keith Christie, David Horler, Bill Geldard (trombones), Peter King (alto sax), Brian Smith (tenor sax), Harry Klein (baritone sax), Louis Stewart (guitar), Ron Mathewson (bass), and Spike Wells (drums) – was recorded at the Torrington Arms, a famed North Finchley music pub now defunct, only a largely unloved Starbucks and restaurant now occupying the site. The album is coming out on specialist north London Tubby label Savage-Solweig Records. Tracks include the title track and Victor Feldman’s ‘Seven Steps to Heaven.’