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# Tubby Hayes - A Man in a Hurry

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Product Description          The documentary 'Tubby Hayes - A Man in a Hurry', narrated by actor Martin Freeman charts the life and times of perhaps Britain's greatest jazz exponent. Produced by Mark Baxter and Sam Pattinson and directed by Lee Cogswell, it is the first ever feature-length documentary about Tubby. Featuring exclusive interviews with people who knew, worked and gigged with Tubby, as well as his many and varied fans. Among those interviewed are Sir Peter Blake, jazz poet Michael Horovitz, DJs Eddie Piller and Patrick Forge, broadcaster Robert Elms, legendary drummer Spike Wells and Tubby Hayes' biographer Simon Spillett.A professional jazz musician at just fifteen, by his untimely death at thirty-eight, Edward Brian 'Tubby' Hayes had left behind a body of work which has both stood the test of time and has proven to be an inspiration to many like-minded musicians today.For ten years from the mid-1950s to the middle to late 1960s, Tubby became a household name in Britain, with a growing reputation overseas. He had his own shows on national television and he played on some of the most iconic recordings of that era, including the soundtracks of the films 'Alfie' and 'The Italian Job'.Back in 1961, Tubby became the first solo UK jazz performer to be invited to play in the United States, where Miles Davis attended his first gig at The Half Note club in New York. He was also the 'go to man' in the UK by the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, either for recordings or performing live.However the combination of years of over-work, drug abuse and ill health, culminated in his untimely death in June 1973.             Review          "(5 stars) Tubby Hayes is indisputably the most celebrated of all British jazz musicians, a man in a hurry indeed...whose short but highly productive career is remembered in Mark Baxter and Lee Cogswell's fine film." --RTE Ten, (Paddy Kehoe), December 7, 2015"(4 stars) This is both a labour of love and a treasure trove of visual memorabilia and remembrances from a host of expert figures...Anyone with a passing interest in Hayes and this now distant period in British jazz will lap this film up." --Marlbank, (Stephen Graham), October 18, 2015"(4 stars) Though this fascinating documentary is an affectionate portrait of Britain's answer to Charlie Parker, it doesn't gloss over the tragedy of his short life...a compelling portrait of a musician whose recognition, had he been American, would have been far greater." --Record Collector, (Charles Waring), Christmas 2015"Tubby Hayes was the man who lit the fuse that ignited the late Fifties British modern jazz explosion. A new film on DVD by Mark Baxter and Lee Cogswell does a superb job of telling his story." --Blues & Soul, (Simon Redley), November 2015"There's a fabulous new DVD documentary out called Tubby Hayes: A Man in a Hurry, by Mark Baxter and Lee Cogswell. Rare performances and footage as well as interviews." --JazzWax, (Marc Myers), December 2015"This joyful little film makes good use of interviews...witty use of graphics, quick pace and evident affection for its subject...Like the man himself, A Man In A Hurry is a little giant of a movie that deserves wider promotion." --Jazzwise, (Andy Robson), December 2015 / January 2016"It isn't easy to make a documentary about jazz these days, and that's an understatement...So hats off to producers Mark Baxter and Sam Pattinson and director Lee Cogswell who have transformed a labour of love into a jazz doc which belongs in the genre's top tier." --Sound of Surprise, (Matt Phillips), November 17, 2015

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## Customer Reviews

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    Heartfelt but Dull
  

*by B***O on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 July 2016*

As a film it's dull and unremarkable. It unimaginatively employs the staid documentary format of clips and interviews linked by a voice over. This might have entertained or informed if the clips had been new rather than a rehash of material readily available on the internet. Most of the people who knew Tubby are long dead now, so the makers have filled in with interviews of people who never actually heard Tubby live but nevertheless are happy to confirm he was really very good!  The stars and blurb on the case hailing the film as a masterpiece say it all - at least two of the plaudits are from people who are in the film! None of them are from a film reviewer.  As the film seems to be aimed at those new to Tubby I think the makers might have stretched to an information booklet, especially as the film has been made in conjunction with Proper, the label behind two excellent box sets of Tubby's music. Could not a deal have been done to reproduce the information from those sets for this DVD? Should you  buy this DVD? Only if you are either a fanatical collector of all things Tubby or if you are fresh to Tubby Hayes and want an introduction to his life and work. Don't waste your money if you have any prior knowledge of Tubby. There is nothing in the film that can't be read on Wikipedia. And if you know anything about Tubby at all the film is quite annoying because of how it skims through the received wisdom about Tubby's life in a way that makes the film seem less like a documentary and more like a bullet pointed Powerpoint presentation. If you really want to know about Tubby spend another tenner and get Simon Spillett's worthy book. This casts way more light on Tubby's life and tells the story warts and all, whereas the filmmakers here make Tubby out to be some kind of likely lad genius who breezed through life until he was tragically and inexplicably cut down in his prime.

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    Tubby Hayes - A brilliant documentary
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 October 2015*

A brilliant documentary, with some great archive footage. Hayes' versatility playing flute and vibes as well as tenor is amazing. The interviews are insightful, and poignant at times, especially with Richard Hayes, who hardly new his father or indeed his status in the jazz world. For those who haven't got their copy, Simon Spillett's biography of Tubby Hayes is an absolute must next read for the full story of Tubby's life and times. The archive footage is tantalising, hopefully there is a lot more available for future release, for example from the Jazz 625 series. Plenty of scope also for a future documentary (please) about the general jazz scene from the times, and other fine players such as Joe Harriott, Jimmy Deuchar and Tommy Whittle. In the meantime, thankfully there is a reasonably substantial output of Tubby Hayes albums out there nowadays, covering most of Tubby's career.

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    There are far too many great quotes to repeat here
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 October 2015*

I have just spent yesterdays extra hour totally absorbed by TUBBY HAYES-A MAN IN A HURRY. There are far too many great quotes to repeat here, but Simon Spillett-together with Tubbys saxophone in the background-gives us the life of the man as it was.  It is fortunate that a documentary that some of us have waited a lifetime for has been completed with so many of Tubbys contemporaries involved. Better late than never. Spike Wells especially I found to most forthcoming, and Robert Elms quote about the drug scene really hits the spot. Simon in his closing piece stating that Tubbys death caused a gap that has never sealed over, and like the closing chapters in Simons book on Tubby, brought a tear to my eye. 11 out of 10.

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