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“Forty years have elapsed since the death of the British jazz legend Tubby Hayes and yet his story still continues to captivate.The Untold Story of Tubby Hayes: 1965
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Tubby Hayes (above) was a jazz giant whose talent and superb taste have not been fully appreciated by U.S.
jazz fans. That's largely because he was British. A multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and vibes, Hayes began his professional career at age 16 in 1951. His skill and reputation in the U.K. took off and he soon became one of the most towering and exciting jazz figures in the country.
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He could turn on the heat on up-tempo pieces and cool off on ballads, and his improvised ideas flowed as fast and as natural as the best American saxophonist or flutist in the 1950s and early '60s.
One reason Hayes is so little known here is that up until the mid-1960s, the American Federation of Musicians didn't allow U.K.
musicians to tour here and the British union didn't allow Americans to tour there. The mutual move was to keep jazz musicians of both countries from taking gigs that