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Oh, there he is!

Look at the hair. 😍

Following on from the excellent documentary Tubby Hayes: A Man In A Hurry we now have a lovely book to feast our eyes upon. Titled Tubby Hayes: The Life Behind The Tenor and curated by MarK Baxter – the producer of A Man in A Hurry – along with contributions from Simon Spillett and Tubby’s son Richard Hayes the book is published by the wonderful Tangerine Press. Nobody has kept the Tubby flame alight more than these three men with Spillett already having produced a book on Hayes – The Long Shadow of the Little Giant: The Life, Work and Legacy of Tubby Hayes along with – until this current crisis hit – touring his own big band playing Hayes material. This project looks at the personal side of Hayes’ life with son Richard providing lots of material to put together a handsome scrapbook of Britain’s premier jazzman. Other contributions for this publication come from Julie Ross, Lee Cogswell Ed Gray, Tracey Coverley, Owen Harvey and the gent that is David Alexander . A special mention to the recently departed and much missed Steven Millington who had sent illustrations for the book. It looks absolutely superb and praise for this must go to Michael Curran of Tangerine Press in making such a lovely job of it all. Proper craftsman and no mistake. A book of this quality and beauty won’t be cheap but it is worth every penny that it costs now and what it will be worth in the future.

All copies are numbered and limited to 100 so for more details or to be added to to the want/info list please contact Mono Media. email: [email protected]

Meanwhile it’s business as usual from Mono’s filmaker extraordinaire Lee Cogswell with this superb trailer for the book Tubby Hayes – The Life Behind The Tenor

Papped! #MayfairMods Martin spotted in London, with Paul Weller, Tom O’Dell, Mark Baxter and J Simons and Robert Elms. Glad to see he still has The Hair and The Freebeard™.

The A to Z of Mod by Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter