100 Proof (Remastered 2019) The Tubby Hayes Orchestra

• 1 100 Proof (Take 3) 14:12
• 2 Night In Tunisia 06:31
• 3 Milestones 07:41
• 4 Sonnymoon For Two 04:38
• 5 Bluesology 05:06
• 6 Nutty 04:18
• Total Runtime 42:26

Info for 100 Proof (Remastered 2019)

Perhaps the defining 'proof' of the success of 100% Proof was its success in the Melody Maker jazz polls of 1968 where it came top in the LP of the year section. Also in that poll Hayes won first position in the top musician, flute, tenor and vibes categories.

"One of the ironies of Hayes dying so young was that his fame was based primarily on his playing and his recordings, yet during the '60s, the last full decade of his career, his composing abilities had begun, albeit in a modest way, to burgeon. It was only with his penultimate Fontana studio album Mexican Green that he had composed an entire album of material. Listening to the BBC recording that was posthumously released as 200% Proof on the Mastermix label, it was clear that his compositional skills were on an upward trajectory. It is quite probable that the main obstacle to his composing hitherto was the fact that he was kept so busy with playing both live gigs and as an in-demand session musician and ironically, only when he, perforce, started to slow down due to ill-health did he have more time to write." (AllAboutJazz)

“It's hard to believe that this music has lain unheard for fifty years, it's so fresh” says Spillett. “There's no doubt in my mind that had they been issued at the time, these recordings would have been seen as Tubby's last great album”. (Simon Spillett)

Tubby Hayes, tenor saxophone, flute, vibraphone
Roy Willox, saxophone
Ray Warleigh, saxophone
Ronnie Scott, saxophone
Bob Efford, saxophone
Ronnie Ross, saxophone
Harry Klein, saxophone
Kenny Baker, trumpet
Ian Hamer, trumpet
Greg Bowen, trumpet
Les Condon, trumpet
Kenny Wheeler, trumpet
Keith Christie, trombone
Nat Peck, trombone
Johnny Marshall, trombone
Chris Smith, trombone
Gordon Beck, piano
Jeff Clyne, bass
Ronnie Stephenson, drums
Johnny Butts, drums

Digitally remastered

Mastering Notes: The recordings have been lovingly remastered at Gearbox Records’ Studios, London, directly from the original tapes, using a Studer C37 ¼-inch stereo tape machine. They were then equalised through an all-valve mastering desk built bespoke for Decca studios in the late 1950s, Vintage Lang Pultec EQ, Prism Maselec EQ and Telefunken U73b valve limiters from 1959.

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