I had never bothered with Tubby prior to hearing this - I was biased against British jazz - but this knocked my socks off. Not just the beauty, but the tremendous skill involved. A first class bunch of musicians led by a genius.
Proof that Tubby is still the UK 's preeminent Jazz Musician up there as good as the Americans, lost far too young to hard drugs his supplier should be given life
This is a great number written by Tubby. Beautiful! It's a pity you just never hear anyone playing this stuff now. It's just such a great sound and there's like no histrionics to it. Just great, well played, feel good music.
There is simply a joyful HAPPINESS that comes of out Tubby Hayes' big band. That's a very delicate thing to do, to project happiness, that's a very artistic thing to do, to project HAPPINESS, that's a very magical things to do, to have a big band project HAPPINESS, that's a WONDERFUL thing to do, to PORTRAY, DELIVER and to PROJECT HAPPINESS. Such a noble thing the Tubby Hayes band did, they PROJECTED HAPPINESS, into a world that needs that precious delicate experience of HAPPINESS and therefore the Tubby Hayes Big Band has earned an honored spot in the history of ALL music, because unlike ANY other group of formal or informal musicians, Tubby Hayes' band gave up HAPPINESS THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DUPLICATED ! My WORLD SALUTES TUBBY HAYES !
Tubby Hayes! Awesome chops on flute and tenor saxophone! His music will continue to be appreciated, on CD, and these videos, Thank you so much for posting.
This brings back memories - Ronnie's ( in the original jazz club downstairs) - the Bulls Head at Barnes - and all for an entrance fee of 4/6d ! Great memories, thank goodness I am old enough to have been there.
Tubbs, Ronnie,Alan,Jimmy,Terry,Ken,and all the guys back in hyena golden era of British jazz. Miss you terribly. But so glad to have seen you all live and have recordings and now videos of you all. Thank you for putting these together. Great days
This particular track showed the sensitive and artistic side of Tubby.There is not just a swinging beat but beauty and aggression; not easy to achieve and keep up the flow. Superb.
I can’t get my head round how it’s possible that I only recently found this. This is dangerous flute playing. I have recently been thinking about what it’d be like to ‘go back in time’.
Love this on so many levels ..firstly coz of the inpiration from my Dad, the wonderful tenor sax player Danny Moss. Secondly as a jazz flute player..wow. Thirdly, as a jazz singer this is just amazing. Love it x
What a find for me at 67. What a loss at 38. One of the best I have heard on flute - great match of heart and virtuosity. Thanks for posting and thank you Mr. Hayes.
What a lovely track, I love Terry Shannon's neat intro and later solo and Tubby's flute solos, from a time when tenor players doubled on flute rather than soprano. And that slightly lopsided waltz rhythm at just the right tempo -- with superb drumming from Allan Ganley - and not forgetting a very good arrangement.
Interestingly, there is a recording (live, if I recall) of him playing this tune on soprano. And Ganley doesn't get nearly the nods he should get in these comments. His riffs at the opening are perfect, and his cymbal crash before the last two chords is exactly what was appropriate.
Fabulous bit of flute playing from Tubby - and it wasn't even his main instrument! Utterly fluent. I think the BBC did a nice job recording Tubby too, subtle echo on the flute made it sound sophisticated.
@@CLASSICALJAJ TUBBY learned to play the flute at his school (Rutlish] where he played in the Classical Orchestra. They weren't allowed to play Jazz, although he was already very well known in England. At the end of the summer term before he left school he played the flute, E B. Hayes in the list of musicians
In the mid sixties I was hooked on American Big Bandss like Woody Herman and didn't pay much attention to Tubby. What an idiot I was. This is as good as anything I've ever heard. My loss I suppose so thanks for posting this. Very nice to see the immaculate Alan Ganley on drums. I first saw him with John Dankworth in 1954.and I think he was still with him when he died last year. 55 years is a long time and I bet they miss him.
Great band, great flute work by an excellent artist. I think of Frank Wess' playing 'The Very Thought of You' on flute accompanied by a big Band. Adorable postage!
@JAZZOLOGIST1 Me too. I used to be a regular at the Soho clubs. Saw Tubby, Ronnie, and all the other British greats live and missed out on so much because I also felt you had to be American to play jazz - my great loss. Not listening more to Tubby live was specially great loss. But catching up.
the piano player is the wonderful Terry Shannon still alive but semi retired in Lincolnshire somewhere.i just wish he had made the LP that Tony Hall wanted him to make in the 60s.a great muscian.
@drwinkle101 - Tubby was more known for playing tenor saxophone rather than alto, followed by soprano and vibes (Known to occasionally play baritone saxophone too!) - He can be heard playing this piece on the album "Down in the village" on soprano saxophone.
I think this track is on a fabulous Tub's LP called Tubs Tours with what sounds like most of this band on this programme. If you like this you will definitely love the rest of the LP. Parisian Thoroughfare. Ill dig it out and list the musicians on it.
Alan was playing a Trixon kit he borrowed from Phil Seaman Ah it brings back a smile & some great memories THANK YOU. Phil was a crazy guy but good friend & I loved Ganley's playing & modeled my Big Band approach on him & Kenny Clare both great players.
Fabulous! I love Tubby's playing, He was one of the greatest tenor playsrs of his generation, a wonderful flautist, and not a bad vibes player, either. Why not check out more of his recorded work - you will not be disappointed.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is famous for this technique you scat the note you're playing at the same time, in this case in Eb, and those really good at it you can scat in harmony giving the illusion of playing two separate different notes on a mono tone instrument..
I've been listening to some of the American Big Bands, Buddy Rich, Basie, that sort of thing but they never played this sort of gentle jazz. I remember Jack Sharp (baritone here) and his big band and they played this kind of stuff so often as did Cliff Hardie's band both at the Bulls Head. Is it a British thing?
@Oodles666 On a saxophone you growl a constant single note to achieve that rough sound but on a flute you have to hum at the same pitch as each note you're playing.
@Oodles666 yes you sing the same notes as you're playing. The small difference in pitch creates a really big sound like a wet tuned accordion or harmonica
@Oodles666 The technique is commonly used by many jazz flute players. It is achieved by singing the note whilst playing it on the flute. A tip....sing softly at first so you let the instrument speak clearly. Check out Robert Dick on you tube he calls it throat tuning. As well as a great power boost for flute it actually improves tone and embouchure. Try it....hope this helps....Happy tooting!
Jazz Masterpiece! Tubby is never forgotten. I was born April 1965.
My jaw dropped from the first few bars, and remained slack the entire time.
THIS IS *WONDERFUL* STUFF!
Our greatest saxophonist,flautist,bandleader.
I had never bothered with Tubby prior to hearing this - I was biased against British jazz - but this knocked my socks off. Not just the beauty, but the tremendous skill involved. A first class bunch of musicians led by a genius.
He plays a lot like Harold McNair.
@@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904 You hear a little homage to Rahsaan at like a minute before the piano solo!
Proof that Tubby is still the UK 's preeminent Jazz Musician up there as good as the Americans, lost far too young to hard drugs his supplier should be given life
No two ways about it - the man was a musical genius!
He was what is universally known as a prodigy.
If he was an American musician people would have been 'creaming their collective shorts' over his playing...
Tubby Hayes and Harold McNair were two of my favourite British jazz flutists of this era..Awesome!!!
Harold McNair, one of the best sounding flutists I've ever heard.
Just as happy a find at 76!
I come back to this regularly, and never lose my love for it. A gem of a piece of jazz.
This is a great number written by Tubby. Beautiful! It's a pity you just never hear anyone playing this stuff now. It's just such a great sound and there's like no histrionics to it. Just great, well played, feel good music.
There is simply a joyful HAPPINESS that comes of out Tubby Hayes' big band. That's a very delicate thing to do, to project happiness, that's a very artistic thing to do, to project HAPPINESS, that's a very magical things to do, to have a big band project HAPPINESS, that's a WONDERFUL thing to do, to PORTRAY, DELIVER and to PROJECT HAPPINESS. Such a noble thing the Tubby Hayes band did, they PROJECTED HAPPINESS, into a world that needs that precious delicate experience of HAPPINESS and therefore the Tubby Hayes Big Band has earned an honored spot in the history of ALL music, because unlike ANY other group of formal or informal musicians, Tubby Hayes' band gave up HAPPINESS THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DUPLICATED ! My WORLD SALUTES TUBBY HAYES !
Tubby Hayes! Awesome chops on flute and tenor saxophone! His music will continue to be appreciated, on CD, and these videos, Thank you so much for posting.
This brings back memories - Ronnie's ( in the original jazz club downstairs) - the Bulls Head at Barnes - and all for an entrance fee of 4/6d ! Great memories, thank goodness I am old enough to have been there.
Tubbs, Ronnie,Alan,Jimmy,Terry,Ken,and all the guys back in hyena golden era of British jazz. Miss you terribly. But so glad to have seen you all live and have recordings and now videos of you all. Thank you for putting these together.
Great days
used to see him at the flamingo, usually on tenor sax, sometimes on vibes but I never saw him playing the flaute, sorry I missed it live.
This is a track from England's most loved jazz genius. Such wonderful skill and feeling combined is so rare in this country.
This particular track showed the sensitive and artistic side of Tubby.There is not just a swinging beat but beauty and aggression; not easy to achieve and keep up the flow. Superb.
Absolutely wonderful. I have never heard better flute playing, period. Great band also. Altogether a great listen! Thanks so much for posting this.
I can’t get my head round how it’s possible that I only recently found this. This is dangerous flute playing. I have recently been thinking about what it’d be like to ‘go back in time’.
In tears listening to this. Why are bands like this no longer with us x
Great to see and hear Tubby's excellent playing...many thanks for posting this.
John D
Love this on so many levels ..firstly coz of the inpiration from my Dad, the wonderful tenor sax player Danny Moss. Secondly as a jazz flute player..wow. Thirdly, as a jazz singer this is just amazing. Love it x
This is the real magic flute!
Beautiful composition and great flute playing.Wonderful Tubby.
love it!! I was at Ronnie's the first night of the Tubby Hayes quintet c.1960
Tubbs did a wizardly recording of this tune a few years earlier on soprano. It is, of course, equally brilliant.
What a find for me at 67. What a loss at 38. One of the best I have heard on flute - great match of heart and virtuosity. Thanks for posting and thank you Mr. Hayes.
There’s extremely honed skill, paired with a kind of ‘honesty’. He’s such a likeable guy.
Excellent production and musicianship. I found this quite by accident and I'm glad I did!
A great jazz man of all time!!
I love this music! piano&flute are beautifle!!!
Stunning..... Shows what a talented bunch of jazz musicians there were in old blighty back then...
What a lovely track, I love Terry Shannon's neat intro and later solo and Tubby's flute solos, from a time when tenor players doubled on flute rather than soprano. And that slightly lopsided waltz rhythm at just the right tempo -- with superb drumming from Allan Ganley - and not forgetting a very good arrangement.
Interestingly, there is a recording (live, if I recall) of him playing this tune on soprano. And Ganley doesn't get nearly the nods he should get in these comments. His riffs at the opening are perfect, and his cymbal crash before the last two chords is exactly what was appropriate.
Love this music ❤
Fabulous bit of flute playing from Tubby - and it wasn't even his main instrument! Utterly fluent. I think the BBC did a nice job recording Tubby too, subtle echo on the flute made it sound sophisticated.
thanks for posting ..i really didn't know this flute player ...wonderful!! !!!
I love this tune!
thanks ! great band . all the musicians are very good , the drummer is very innovative in a big band style for that era .
Great, I was in the audience....
Really !!! Wow - A Happening
@@CLASSICALJAJ TUBBY learned to play the flute at his school (Rutlish] where he played in the Classical Orchestra. They weren't allowed to play Jazz, although he was already very well known in England. At the end of the summer term before he left school he played the flute, E B. Hayes in the list of musicians
Lovely stuff, great flute, big band and arrangement, I used to follow Tubby in Melody maker years ago.
God, what a brilliant flautist, and he was mainly known for the alto!
In the mid sixties I was hooked on American Big Bandss like Woody Herman and didn't pay much attention to Tubby. What an idiot I was. This is as good as anything I've ever heard. My loss I suppose so thanks for posting this.
Very nice to see the immaculate Alan Ganley on drums. I first saw him with John Dankworth in 1954.and I think he was still with him when he died last year. 55 years is a long time and I bet they miss him.
Great band, great flute work by an excellent artist.
I think of Frank Wess' playing 'The Very Thought of You' on flute accompanied by a big Band.
Adorable postage!
And then, just for the hell of it, he'd play vibes too... Tragic loss, far too early in life !
Some piano solos are really simple but the timing is perfection - this one falls into that category.
@JAZZOLOGIST1 Me too. I used to be a regular at the Soho clubs. Saw Tubby, Ronnie, and all the other British greats live and missed out on so much because I also felt you had to be American to play jazz - my great loss. Not listening more to Tubby live was specially great loss. But catching up.
Absolute belter ❤
Tubby’s flute tone here - my God.
the piano player is the wonderful Terry Shannon still alive but semi retired in Lincolnshire somewhere.i just wish he had made the LP that Tony Hall wanted him to make in the 60s.a great muscian.
@drwinkle101 - Tubby was more known for playing tenor saxophone rather than alto, followed by soprano and vibes (Known to occasionally play baritone saxophone too!) - He can be heard playing this piece on the album "Down in the village" on soprano saxophone.
I think this track is on a fabulous Tub's LP called Tubs Tours with what sounds like most of this band on this programme. If you like this you will definitely love the rest of the LP. Parisian Thoroughfare. Ill dig it out and list the musicians on it.
One of brittons greatest sax players
Check that. By far Britain's greatest sax player.
Alan was playing a Trixon kit he borrowed from Phil Seaman Ah it brings back a smile & some great memories THANK YOU.
Phil was a crazy guy but good friend & I loved Ganley's playing & modeled my Big Band approach on him & Kenny Clare both great players.
Fabulous! I love Tubby's playing, He was one of the greatest tenor playsrs of his generation, a wonderful flautist, and not a bad vibes player, either. Why not check out more of his recorded work - you will not be disappointed.
wonderful, wonderful!!!
Thanks for the info. It is a lovely tune.
There should be a statue of Tubby Hayes in London. At the time he was Mr Soho. True jazz legend.
Yes Anne this is classic !!!
wtf happened at 2:40 ? its amazing
The first line of the melody is very like 'Ye Banks and Braes', a setting of 'The Caledonian Hunt's Delight' tune to a Robert Burns poem.
Yes, almost identical. I bet he heard it and composed a melody around it.
Check out the transcription of Tubby's playing on this track at jazznote.co.uk
Brilliant
Such a nice !!!!! Respect !!!!!
hermoso, genio!
It was Tubby. Lovely waltz. Don't know why it is never played now.
Not one wrong note. Excellent.
@drwinkle101 - I thought he was known more for playing tenor saxophone and vibes...Harold McNair was the renowned flautist of this era!
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is famous for this technique you scat the note you're playing at the same time, in this case in Eb, and those really good at it you can scat in harmony giving the illusion of playing two separate different notes on a mono tone instrument..
I've been listening to some of the American Big Bands, Buddy Rich, Basie, that sort of thing but they never played this sort of gentle jazz. I remember Jack Sharp (baritone here) and his big band and they played this kind of stuff so often as did Cliff Hardie's band both at the Bulls Head. Is it a British thing?
Beautiful tune, ive got his two orig albums for sae
Just superb
Wonderful.
@Oodles666 On a saxophone you growl a constant single note to achieve that rough sound but on a flute you have to hum at the same pitch as each note you're playing.
@Oodles666 yes you sing the same notes as you're playing. The small difference in pitch creates a really big sound like a wet tuned accordion or harmonica
fantastic!
Brilliant!
...Very nice, Tubby!...
@Oodles666 The technique is commonly used by many jazz flute players.
It is achieved by singing the note whilst playing it on the flute.
A tip....sing softly at first so you let the instrument speak clearly.
Check out Robert Dick on you tube he calls it throat tuning.
As well as a great power boost for flute it actually improves tone and embouchure.
Try it....hope this helps....Happy tooting!
Sublime
Of course I meant great days (not hyena) Ronnie would have loved that typo:-)
Anyone know who wrote and/or arranged this tune? Tubby himself?
I don't know the technical term as I'm not a flautist, but I think you hum the melody at the same time.
You mean " growl"?
You can't beat a jazz waltz! Who was the pianist here?
That's Terry Shannon at the piano
Is that Ken Wray on Valve Trombone ?
'Mexican Green' is a good choice.
hi is singing and playing in the same time between
240 and249
wow five stars a ten
@Oodles666 hi is singing and playing in the same time between
240 and249
GIve me de sound!!
Allan Ganley.
who is the drummer ?
@60march
Thx!
@crossleydd42 Terry Shannon
Nobody like him ever