Ask Simon Spillett about Tubby Hayes and you had better clear your evening. Spillett has spent two decades chasing down Hayes’s story, a devotion that produced The Long Shadow of the Little Giant, a biography good enough to be awarded a Certificate of Merit for Historical Research in Recorded Jazz at the 2016 ARSC Awards (Association for Recorded Sound Collections). He plays with the same appetite he writes with: the Top Tenor Saxophonist prize at the British Jazz Awards in 2011, a Services to British Jazz honour in 2016, and a big band of his own that revives Hayes’s repertoire, first heard at London’s 100 Club and now captured on the album Dear Tubby H. Expect a tenor sound with history behind every note, from a regular who knows this room as well as any stage in Soho.