Tubby hayes biography books

Thomas Cunniffe, Jazz History Online For me, it is the definitive work on the subject and will always will be. Mark Baxter, writer and filmmaker including a forthcoming Tubby Hayes documentary out in October This is a beautifully written and exhaustively researched volume. Blue Light It's the first really rounded account of a British jazz musician I've read, and I think I've read most of them.

Dave Gelly Simon Spillett has written a book about Tubby Hayes that tells us a great deal about the man and his music, and about British modern jazz generally. The Northern Review of Books What this book has successfully achieved is to paint a three dimensional portrait of a genius but, crucially, it's written by someone who's not merely a Hayes expert - very probably the Hayes expert - but also a professional jazz musician.

Few books have been written about post-war jazz, and none concerning its most illustrious star, making this eminently readable biography a strong contender for jazz book of the year. Jazz Journal One of the finest jazz biographies of recent times. A big book in every way, it stands as a worthy tribute to a colossal talent. Jazzwise This is a superlative biography and one that every jazz aficionado should read.

Soul and Jazz and Funk With a sparkling turn of phrase and a spooky empathy for an era that may as well be the dark ages, so different is it to the present, Spillett makes Tubby walk again here, grinning, vibing in every sense , blowing. Greeley, Colorado: University of Northern Colorado. The Independent. Jazz News and Review , Vol. Rutlish School.

Virgin Books. ISBN Blue Note Records. Retrieved 15 February David Taylor. Retrieved 24 January Blue Plaques - English Heritage. English Heritage. Cheltenham: The History Press. Jazz News. Retrieved 21 February The Guardian. Fri 11 January. Retrieved 20 February Madavor Media, LLC. Jazz History Online. Jazz Journal. UK Vibe. Palmerston North, Wellington: Massey University.

Retrieved 19 February As his career progressed, he picked up several other instruments, including vibraphone, flute and soprano sax. He mastered each new instrument with blinding speed, recording on each within months of acquisition. Hayes picked up new styles with the same dedication. Not content to wait for the albums to be issued in the UK, he would order them from the US and probably had them delivered by fellow musicians working transatlantic gigs on the Queen Mary.

Hayes was the first British jazz soloist to play club dates in the United States, and with the unique opportunity to hear the latest styles from Miles Davis , John Coltrane , Roland Kirk and Sonny Rollins in person, he was able to modify his own style and to a certain extent, the styles of his sidemen to incorporate the new music. The personnel of his bands would change every few years, and listeners could hear bebop, modal music, free jazz—or a mixture of all three—when hearing a Hayes performance.

It also includes an overview of Hayes's film work. The book is published by Names and Numbers, highly regarded discography specialists based in the Netherlands, and is available direct from their website:.

Tubby hayes biography books

Of course, the above and enclosed are the 'official' announcements - it was in fact printed yesterday - so it's not quite 'now' but 'soon'. Also coming soon is the film documentary of Hayes, A Man in a Hurry, launching at the London Jazz Festival in November, and earlier this year was Simon's bio of Hayes, so it's a bumper year for Tubby, the 80th anniversary of his birth.

For the first time, the opaque world of his inconsistent and troubled personal life is recounted in full.