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 […]