This important collection, with helpful liner notes by Simon Spillett, includes some real gems, not least the only live recording of Hayes in the United States (with the Walter Bishop Trio at the First International Jazz Festival, Washington); an appearance with the Jimmy Deuchar Plus Ten; a performance of John Coltrane’s ‘Moments Notice’ with Victor Feldman; a live performance with the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra; several interviews and performances of pieces not recorded elsewhere. It is a collection that does not lack for highlights of which three Jazz Club performances by the Jazz Couriers between 1958-9 are among the most absorbing, while the appearance on the then Third Programme’s more solemn Jazz Session of Hayes’ ‘new’ quintet, with Jimmy Deuchar (t), Gordon Beck (p), Freddie Logan (b) and Alan Ganley (d) just two weeks after its formation is a valuable historical document. There’s a performance of ‘The Night’ with Hayes on soprano sax (an interesting counterpoint to his work on that instrument on Down in the Village since he gave up playing the instrument shortly afterwards), and a performance in Washington in front of 7,000 people with the Walter Bishop Trio with Butch Warren on bass and drummer Roy Brooks. Despite the static and occasional dropouts it’s a remarkable document of a British jazz musician raising the roof in the homeland of jazz with an all-hands-on-deck performance of ‘Oleo’