The Mike Sammes Singers feat Tubby Hayes and The Ted Taylor Organsound: He Who Would Valiant Be (Davjon, 1969)People who are brilliant at a particular type of music are, generally, a bit boring. People who are terrible at a particular type of music are a bit boring too. People who aren't quite sure how you're meant to play the sort of music you're attempting (in this case, street-walking, hip-swinging, nose-thumbing jazz-funk) but have a go anyway are, by some small distance, the most interesting of the lot. Now, Ted Taylor could no more swing than he could walk on water (he can barely make the words scan), but he pieces this track together with the brilliant Tubby Hayes and the ever on-point Mike Sammes Singers and, as a result, the whole thing hangs together with some sort of alarming wonderfulness. I stole this - without a thought for the consequences - from this fantastic record. Jesus wouldn't approve, but we shouldn't worry about that too much.
3 comments:
gawd bless those lovely trunk chaps - they do put out some mad stuff. my british jazz fan chum just spent far too much on a tubby hayes record and it was nowhere near as fab as this
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Hey Ally - I love them Trunk boys too... BTW, I'm lining up some late 60s Italian crooner / girl pop just for you...
have never understood why Tubby Hayes isn't worshipped as much as Coltrane. Trane is my hero but Tubbs is ever bit as good. A|nd he was a top vibes player too. He should be given due praise.
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