Spike Hughes

Spike Hughes, like a bassist (one of the better in the first ’30s), arranger, and bandleader, produced a significant (if little-known) contribution to jazz. He organized for English dance bands from the past due ’20s, before you begin an excellent group of jazz information in 1930 along with his Decca-Dents and Three Blind Mice. Among his sidemen had been a few of England’s best jazz musicians, a lot of whom seldom had such an excellent chance to move away from playing industrial music; one program discovered Hughes and his tempo section support Jimmy Dorsey. In 1933, Hughes found NY and documented with an all-star group whose nucleus was the Benny Carter Orchestra. These recordings highlighted such greats as Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Crimson Allen, Dickie Wells, flutist Wayman Carver, and Sid Catlett playing Hughes’ multi-colored agreements. A multi-talented specific, Spike Hughes however chose to keep jazz entirely, in 1934, to focus on traditional music and being truly a journalist.