Following the discovery of some long-rumored studio master tapes, Decca Records releases a never-before-issued 1969 album by leading British jazz artist Tubby Hayes on entitled Grits, Beans And Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969.

Hearing these perfectly-preserved tapes for the first time, discovered in pristine condition and untouched since they were first spooled in the Fontana/Philips Studios, London, back in 1969 is sure to excite many jazz fans.

Hayes' biographer, the award-winning British jazz saxophonist Simon Spillett (The Long Shadow Of The Little Giant: The Life, Work and Legacy of Tubby Hayes, 2017) says: "Sometimes when tapes than have been lost or rumoured to exist finally surface there is a touch of anti-climax or the need to ‘spin’ them in a way that makes them more important than they are.

"These sessions, on the other hand, are absolute classics in every regard. It’s an album that can sit equally alongside the best Coltrane, Rollins or Dexter Gordon LPs. It really is a lost masterpiece, make no mistake."