Real name: Patrick Cairns Hughes

Effective period / Period of releases: 1996

Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes (London, 19 October 1908 – 2 February 1987, London) was a British jazz musician, composer and music journalist. He was the son of Irish composer, writer and song collector Herbert Hughes and great grandson of the sculptor Samuel Peploe Wood. Hughes was a multi-dimensional musician, playing the double bass, composing operatic scores, arranging jazz recordings and writing books on topics ranging from gardening to Toscanini's music.