Guardian's Jazz Album of the Month: Tubby Hayes Quartet - an ingenious melodicist rediscovered

Hayes (with a heroin habit and a heart condition) died at 38 in 1973 before he could distil his skills into something as single-mindedly hefty as John Coltrane, or as capriciously flighty as Ornette Coleman. But 'Grits, Beans and Greens' – made in 1969 just before Hayes’ health declined, long-lost and now finally mastered and released on vinyl and CD – captures his astonishing fluency as a tenor-sax improviser, and canny craftsmanship as a composer - Guardian says about their latest pick for Jazz Album of the Month.