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quite possibly listened as enthralled as i just did burning dog, but no memory alas .... [sounded very familiar] the programme is referred to as Jazz Session ..
in a similar vein i have just acquired this
with Tubby Hayes on all but one track ...
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Nope. The interviewer's voice sound a bit too pawsh for it to've been Steve Race; but I'm willing to bet Trevor would know. A great interview, btw; Tubby gives fascinating replies,doesn't pull his punches, and one believes every word he says. Well done finding this BD - a good excuse to stay indoors and :cool2: without the shades!Originally posted by burning dog View PostComment
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Digging Giant Steps was pretty hip and quick off the mark then, but Tubbs had access to imports and probably bought it in the USA. Makes you realise how quickly it all happened in those days. When Tubby started plalying in 1950 Monk was a madman, Bird squawked and Dizzy played Chinese music. By 1960 they were establishment heroes to the hip.
Jazz has been having the LCJO versus the Avant Garde argument for twenty years now
. Bands that were mainstream modern 'cool' then, ie outside of that battle, are still making recordings and gigging!
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The paul Motian CD "Plays Bill Evans" is terrific and I would urge anyone who hasn't acquired it aleady that they won't be disappointed. The music is more visceral than you might expect but it is striking how many good tunes there are on this. I have always loved the track "Five" where Lovano's corruscating tenor and Frisell's almost industrial noise on guitar push the music is a very unexpected direction. There are some quiet moments on this record which , I would suggest, is one of the best Motian has made.Comment
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I agree Ian, that's what made me think of it, but it doesn't seem possible how old it is. As you say, it's more dynamic than quite a few of their albums, which is what like about it.Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View PostComment
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I was hoping that Trevor looks in here now and then. My Dad remembers hearing Giant Steps first on the radio, so Ill play it to him sometime.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Didnt know Tubby more or less learned vibes as he went along.
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PS Have found out a bit. The programme Jazz Session(s) was on Network 3 ( the Third programmes evening "Brand") and was usually presented by Steve Race, though obviously not this time.Last edited by burning dog; 04-08-11, 11:32.Comment
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Tubbs picked up on vibes after Vic Feldman was late at a Flamingo gig. App he played "Buesology"just fooling around, straight off and was enthused. I've been listening to Tubbs "After Lights Out" album (Tempo 1956 ) which is lovely relaxed quintet thing. Not all Brit jazz of that period was breathless and lumpy. The album with "Mesage for the Messengers" and "Hall hears the blues" on it. Remined me also how good Bill Eyden was.
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Interesting what you say about "After Lights Out" which I didn't know of, Bluesie - there was a kind of West Coast/Cool School in British jazz of the 50s around people like Don Rendell and Ronnie Ross, and I'd never have known Tubbs related to or was part of that; it seems so unlikely to one's stereotyped image of him, though imv some of his best work was in ballads where he would really build up a narrative rather than reiterating them fast bop licks.Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
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One time we sat on the carpet to hear him at The Bull in Barnes in the 60s. Fond (but rather vague) memories.Comment
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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!According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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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.
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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 ....According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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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 View PostComment
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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).Comment
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