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. A Mono Media Film, produced by Mark Baxter and Sam Pattinson and directed by Lee Cogswell.
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.