02/10/2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u5fybbD_CI
Text from Press Release:
Hot on the heels of the coveted award of a Blue Plaque on his childhood home in South-West London, Tubby Hayes is again being celebrated at his musical “spiritual home” Ronnie Scott’s Club in London.
Hayes’ association with Scott went back to the early 1950s and moved onwards through their dynamic partnership in The Jazz Couriers from 1957 to 1959. When Scott opened his own venue in Gerrard Street, Hayes was the natural choice to top the bill, and from the mid-1960s until the spring of 1973, barely a few weeks before his untimely death, Hayes’ various quartets, quintets and big bands frequently graced the Scott clubs Frith Street bandstand.
Headed by Hayes’ authority and award-winning tenor saxophonist (and author of the multi-award-nominated biography The Long Shadow of The Little Giant: The Music, Life and Legacy of Tubby Hayes), the October 2nd lunchtime performance promises to be a whistle-stop tour through some of Hayes’ best known compositions, taken from such albums as Tubby’s Groove, Tubbs in NY, Mexican Green, Late Spot at Scott’s and The Jazz Couriers in Concert, with everything tied together by Spillett’s dryly humorous, anecdote-packed introductions.
Oooh I fancy that – I saw SS at my local jazz club and he was terrific. In fact I bought his book direct from the author!
I fancy that one too. It’ll tie in nicely as an appetiser for the Ed Jones + Just East jazz gig at The Chandos Arms in Colindale later on (6 – 8.30pm).
I think this is a better representation of Simon – an official promo clip rather than a cameraphone thing. Though there’s not much SS film online. I guess we’ll just all have to go to the gig!