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I don't listen to sax much but when I do, it has to be Ben Webster.
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08-17-2025 01:13 PM
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Tubby Hayes.
A great Sax player.
It's a great album.
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Love love love Tubby Hayes! He swung like hell and so melodic. He has a great version of "Wonderful! Wonderful!"
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Yes, Tubby Hayes is great.
Originally Posted by Alea
What a tone and energy.
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Can you imagine a performing artist having a nickname like "tubby" these days? He'd be lynched in the town square for political incorrectness.
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Along with Fats Waller/Navarro/Domino.
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Ahh..yes..long ago..a comics delight.. Originally Posted by Mick-7
Chubby Checker..I thought it was a fat taxi cab...
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More Corpulent Hayes
You can't have enough corpulent.
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Even more, Tubby.
You know you can't have enough Tubby........................................
Below, playing the classic 'Doxy'
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David Sanchez
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Unreal. Started out sounding like Sonny Rollins. Next thing I knew I was in another universe. Fantastic articulation, very easy to follow, even on the double-time passages, and, as above, as swinging as anyone you're likely to hear. Whew! Originally Posted by Alea
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Here is a rare video of Tubby Hayes shortly before he died in June 1973. Originally Posted by buduranus2
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Thanks for that. The first part reminded me of Gene Ammons. Then, after a while, maybe some Sonny Stitt, although I don't recall him getting up into the altissimo range on tenor. Regardless, you can't take anything away from Tubby Hayes. He's the real deal!
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Sonny Stitt here on Tenor sax.
The classic "Ain't Misbehavin"
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Frank Foster
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Tubby also appeared in a movie, "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors(1965)" as a member of a quintet led by a trumpet player, who stole a sacred melody from a West Indies Voodoo ceremony, and gets cursed by the leader of the Voodoo minister when they are playing at a club in London. Originally Posted by GuyBoden
A violent storm causes the audience to flee, but Tubby bravely keeps playing through the storm.
Let this be a lesson to jazz musicians everywhere to refrain from stealing sacred Voodoo melodies. The trumpet player pays the ultimate price.
Dick Morrissey took over the mantle as best tenor sax player in the UK when Tubby passed in 1973. I just found very rare recording he made that I've been looking for for ages on YT.
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Wow, thanks for posting, that's a great 1960's sounding album. Originally Posted by sgcim
I only know Dick Morrissey from his time playing with Jim Mullen (On Tele).
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Tubby Hayes is a new name for me, but my immediate reaction is "Zoot!" A new player for look for in my explorations.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
It's been probably 50 years since I closely perused the liner notes -- or even just casually glanced at them while rolling a doobie in the LP gatefold -- but didn't Dick Morrissey play tenor sax on "Money" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon album? Originally Posted by GuyBoden
His name sounds really familiar...
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Dick Parry Originally Posted by Bob_Ross
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Dick did a whole lot more than just playing with Jim Mullen. He released three other albums as a jazz leader, He led the Jazz-Rock Band IF for a number of years, and he resumed playing jazz as a sideman with people like Ronnie Scott, Peter King, etc. Originally Posted by GuyBoden
Wow, thanks for posting, that's a great 1960's sounding album.
I only know Dick Morrissey from his time playing with Jim Mullen (On Tele).
In fact Ronnie Scott said that jazz fans loved to see him play live so much in the SW years, he literally kept his club from closing down., There were lines of people waiting to get in.
He did studio work for Paul McCartney and other rock stars, because he had the ability to fit in with any type of music that was popular back then.
In the end, jazz was all he really cared about, and he spent his last years playing at the Bull's Head and other small clubs.
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Dick Morrissey has an excellent wikipedia entry (I was surprised how much detail it has):
Dick Morrissey - Wikipedia
I’ve got his After Dark album but haven’t listened to it for ages, must give it a spin.
I saw him a few times with Terry Smith or Jim Mullen, he often played in the South London area. Very nice guy, I’ve mentioned before that he bought me a drink once and we chatted about our jazz heroes.
I never saw Tubby Hayes unfortunately, he was long gone by the time I got into jazz.
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Ah, that's it, thanks. Originally Posted by GuyBoden
I knew there was some Dick involved.
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Oh yeah, I was gonna mention you and the Bull's Head, but I forgot your last name ("Bop"lol!), and I didn't remember if you spelled your first name like Graeme Edge.. Originally Posted by grahambop
I was talking to Dick's son online (who is a guitar player), and I asked.him if he knew of a recording where he and Terry ever played any straight ahead/bop stuff together. Unfortunately, the only one he could think of was some Jack McDuff album where Dick got some blowing time in, but Terry didn;t have any real solos.
Dick didn't use any guitarists on any of his jazz albums, and Terry didn't use Dick on any of his jazz records, so the only time you could hear them playing together was on the If albums, where they didn't play any bop or standards,
So the only people who heard them play standards/Bop was at the clubs in the South London area were people like YOU, you lucky dog!!!
I have heard some tapes of Terry playing live at the Bull's Head, but none of them had Dick playing on them, just a trio with a pianist and bass player. I can't remember if there was a drummer.
Dick's son said they still remained close friends after If, and Terry would come over Dick's place a lot. He said Terry reminded him of a gruff taxi driver!
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Looks like there’s a Dick Morrissey gig with Terry Smith listed under this youtube video (this is from the guy who has some recordings from the Bull’s Head). It’s the 6th one down in the list in the youtube description:
Dick Morrisey \ Terry Smith \ Tony Lee \ Tony Archer \ Roger Sellars \ Terry Jenkins
Bull's Head, Barnes - 31 March 1976
(The link to all the recordings is at the end of the youtube description).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4NrnQpb72MU
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