(Press release) Award-winning tenor saxophonist Simon Spillett is taking his all-star big band into the studios this spring to record its first album.
Featuring a host of leading jazz luminaries, (many of them leaders in their own right) including trumpeters Mark Armstrong, Steve Fishwick and Freddie Gavita, trombonist Mark Nightingale, saxophonists Pete Long, Simon Allen, Alex Garnett and Alan Barnes, and based around Spillett's regular quartet with Rob Barron, Alec Dankworth and Pete Cater, the band caused a sensation on 2022's jazz festival circuit (playing Wigan, Scarborough, Southend, Swansea and Swanage) culminating in a sold out performance at the EFG London Jazz Festival.
As on the band's concert appearances, the new album will focus on the work of legendary UK jazz icon Tubby Hayes, including a dozen compositions and arrangements from Hayes' repertoire that have never previously been recorded.
Arguably the most prominent British modern jazz musician of his day, feted by the likes of Duke Ellington, Art Blakey and Dave Brubeck,
Hayes died aged 38 in 1973, this year marking the 50th anniversary of his passing. The Simon Spillett Big Band's album is therefore a timely memorial to his genius.
The new recording will include Hayes' originals alongside his unique orchestrations of pieces by Horace Silver and Lennon and McCartney.
Spillett's quartet will also release a new album this year.
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