We might as well call January Tubby Hayes month.

In the run-up to what would have been the saxophonist/vibist bandleader’s 80th birthday the latest “previously unissued” comes at a propitious time as Hayes famed for his work with Ronnie Scott in the Jazz Couriers and for cult albums such as Mexican Green, Late Spot at Scott’s and Down in the Village would have been 80 if he had lived until 30 January, 2015 ringed as a big year for Tubbyologists as there’s a much anticipated biography by Tubby anorak Simon Spillett published in late-March and a documentary A Man in a Hurry in the works.

First though Symphony: The Lost Session 1972 with a 12 January release date is another album featuring Hayes at his much favoured haunt the Hopbine in Wembley recorded in February that year, a month when he also recorded in Sweden with Bengt Hallberg’s trio and with a quartet including Oscar Peterson-ite NHØP.

Tracks on this new release are: ‘A Symphony,’ ‘Autumn Leaves,’ ‘Certain Smile,’ ‘I Thought About You,’ and ‘Sonny Moon For Two.’

‘Symphony’ was first recorded with an English language vocal by Freddy Martin and his Orchestra in the 1940s.

Hayes took a different, wildly swinging small group Mobley-esque tack, when he recorded the song as an instrumental on the Tubby’s New Groove album Tony Hall produced at Broadhurst Gardens in 1959.

Hayes was only 38 when he died. But packed a helluva lot in during his life to say the least! To be issued by Acrobat, Hayes is playing on the album with the Tony Lee Trio, the tracks remastered from the original tape source.

And 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. 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.’

• At Ronnie Scott’s on 1 February a few days after the 80th anniversary Bobby Wellins guests at a lunchtime gig with a Simon Spillett-led band that includes Spike Wells from the Rumpus line-up