Tubby Hayes with Clark Terry - The New York Sessions

Back in 1985, I bought DJ Paul Murphy’s compilation Jazz Club #2, which featured Tubby Hayes’s Pint Of Bitter. I always found it incredible that British jazz from 1961 could hold its own amongst the pick of US jazz favourites.

Pint Of Bitter was taken from this album. Well, I say this album, because what I’m playing today is the fourth iteration of this album, released in 1990: it’s been called ‘Tubbs in N.Y.’, ‘Tubby the Tenor’, and ‘Tubbs in New York’ in its time, with the sleeve becoming more shittified with each progression. To add insult to injury, they’ve added Clark Terry’s name to the main credits on this version.

Hayes was, by far, the best British jazz saxophonist of his day. Now largely forgotten, unfortunately. But this really is very good. He deserves better.

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