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“QUITE BRILLIANT FROM START TO FINISH” (Andy Peebles, Radio 1 legend)

“BRAVO SIMON SPILLETT AND PETE CATER FOR MAKING THE BEST BIG BAND ALBUM OF THE LAST TEN YEARS. THE SOLOS ARE FIRST RATE, THE SOUND AND PACKAGING SUPERB, AND THE ENSEMBLES ARE TIGHTER AND MORE EXCITING THAN THE 60S BAND”

(John Altman, Hollywood film composer))

Recorded in early April 2023 this A team British big band presents roughly an hour of killer big band charts composed by or associated with Tubby Hayes. All of these charts have been painstakingly re edited by Mark Nightingale and none of them were ever recorded on any of Tubby Hayes’s commercially released albums.

Personnel:

Saxophones: Sammy Mayne, Pete Long, Alex Garnett, Simon Allen, Alan Barnes

Trumpets: Nathan Bray, George Hogg, Freddie Gavita, Steve Fishwick

Trombones: Jon Stokes, Mark Nightingale, Ian Bateman, Pete North

Piano: Rob Barron

Bass: Alec Dankworth

Drums: Pete Cater

Musical director, tenor sax solos and all-round project mastermind: Simon Spillett