Tubby Hayes

• 2 × CD Deluxe Edition

• 4/2 stars all music guide

Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969 is truly a "lost" album that's a jazz holy grail on par with Tubby Hayes' 1968 albums Mexican Green and 100% Proof. Cut with a smoking new band with whom he was trying to re-establish himself as a viable musician after two years of health problems, arrests, and other mishaps, this amounts to his last great album. The session reels containing it sat in boxes until 2014 when Decca/Universal hired high-end vinyl specialists Gearbox Studios to master the sessions for the first time and deliver new lacquers. While the album was assembled from multiple takes, Hayes' diary designated the final lineup's keepers.

PERSONNEL:

• TUBBY HAYES, tenor sax
• MIKE PYNE. piano
• RON MATHEWSON, bass
• SPIKE WELLS, drums

Session 1 - Recorded at Philips studios, Stanhope Place, London. Tuesday May 27th 1969. Session 2 - Recorded at Philips studios, Stanhope Place, London. Tuesday June 24th 1969

session1:

• 01. Where Am I Going? (Take 1)
• 02. Where Am I Going? (Take 2)
• 03. Where Am I Going? ...
• 04. Grits Beans And Greens (Take 1)
• 05. For Members Only (Take 1)
• 06. Where Am I Going? (Take 1)
• 07. For Members Only (Take 2)

session 2:

• 01. Where Am I Going? (Take 2)
• 02. Grits Beans And Greens (Take 2
• 03. Grits Beans And Greens (Take 3)
• 04. Rumpus (Take 1)
• 05. Where Am I Going? (Take 3)
• 06. Rumpus (Take 2)
• 07. Rumpus (Take 3)
• 08. Rumpus (Take 4)
• 09. Grits Beans And Greens (Take )
• 10. You Know I Care (Take 1)
• 11. You Know I Care (Take 2)