ah history .... there are already two versions of the vibes beginnings on the thread, one in the interview [Now's the time] and one from El Senor [Bluesology] ... a safe bet it was a blues!
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ah history .... there are already two versions of the vibes beginnings on the thread, one in the interview [Now's the time] and one from El Senor [Bluesology] ... a safe bet it was a blues!
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SA - Tubbs - "After Lights Out" is now part of the Proper Hayes box set put together by Simon Spillet. Quite unlike the usual image of Tubbs with him in a kind of bluesey Mobleyesque phase and Harry South being "oblique". A really good album. I remember him more from Ronnies chez Gerrard st. in the early '60s in the classic quintet with Jimmy Deucher, which on a good night, and they very often were, was hugely impressive. For a young person.
To my shame (at age 14, 1961?) I walked down those stairs in the afternoon and up to Ronnie Scott when the Hayes quintet was running thro some tunes and asked "what time does real music come on?" He was very understanding. And broke both my legs.
BN.
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you probably passed me on the stairs ... i was often being interviewed by the plod who wanted to know what a young grammar school lad was doing in the den of iniquity ... listening to Tubby Hayes was my usual answer ...why they should think we would be daft enough to get up to anything in the middle of soho beats me, ... all the best iniquities i knew happened in council flat and suburban bedrooms ....
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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I once attended the hairdressers opposite Ronnie's for a "college cut" - very mod at that time (1965). Afterwards the hairdresser asked, "And would sir be wanting anything else, perhaps for the weekend?" - indicating the... condominium.Originally Posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo
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in the audio, young tubby sounds like someone from the 'seven up' docu series imo ...bless him.
(fwiw, 'seven up docu' tracked a bunch of people, over time, to see where they ended up, and (possibly) why).
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Don't remember that one, hsf
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This was broadcast as part of BBC Network Three's Jazz Session on Wednesday November 9th 1960. It was recorded at Studio B5, Broadcasting House, Portland Place on Tuesday October 25th 1960. The interviewer is unidentified. Tubby received a payment of £5.5s for this appearance.
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that would be 5 Guineas then .... and thank you for that biographer's [i assume simon] detailed knowledge ...
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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Yes, 'tis I.
The interview is an excellent barometer of Hayes' musical thoughts at the time. "Tubby's Groove" was released in June 1960 and gained lots of critical praise, with many critics aligning Tubbs to Coltrane. He was seriously checking out both Coltrane and Johnny Griffin, and both influences can be heard on "Tubby's Groove" and "Tubby's New Groove".
However.....Tubby wasn't as convinced by the early Coltrane Impulse LP's and on another Beeb interview from January 1963, he says he thinks that he "got it wrong" about Trane leading the way and cites Rollins as the current front runner on tenor.
These surviving BBC interviews also illustrate very well what a nice, genuine and modest man Tubby was.
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must say that i agree on the whole [duck]"got it wrong" about Trane leading the way and cites Rollins as the current front runner on tenor.
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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