For those who haven't picked up Acrobat's indispensible six-pack of Tubb's entire Tempo output, this single disc is a good primer for those recently acquainted with his name. Want to know what all the fuss is about? Well here is a taster that offers a brief 12-track overview. Seven titles (including four by The Jazz Couriers) are from the Tempo archive, a moving ‘Round About Midnight’ stems from a Blue Note session helmed by Dizzy Reece (though Reece sits this one out) and to round out this dozen, a further four were recorded for Fontana including a fierce big band romp through ‘Cherokee’, Tubb's regular quintet featuring Jimmy Deuchar live at Ronnie's (‘Down In The Village’) plus a couple of souvenirs from sessions held in the Big Apple in the company of Clark Terry (‘Pint Of Bitter’) and James Moody and Roland Kirk (‘Stitt's Tune’). So this, my friends, is a glimpse what all the fuss was about – and still is.