Jazzman Humph Lyttelton dies, aged 86
p2pnet news | Music:- British jazz legend and chairman of BBC comedy show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue,’ Humphrey Lyttelton, is dead at the age of 86.
Lyttelton was internationally famous, but he and his band still found time to play at the Bull’s Head pub in London, as they’d done for the last 42 years.
“He played his last concert here two weeks ago and gave a sparkling performance, was on top form and had the audience completely in the palm of his hand,” says landord Dan Fleming in an online BBC tribute.
“I am just stunned that this has happened,” he said, adding he’d always remember Lyttletone as a, “gentle, truly humorous and truly compassionate man, who loved jazz and loved the work he did and loved the audiences he performed to.
“In my 26 years I never saw him angry or anything but smiling and happy.”
His appeal was universal,” says the Daily Mail, noting:
“In 2000, the band Radiohead asked him to play trumpet on one of their albums.”
Lyttelton spent time at the steel plate works in Port Talbot in South Wales, “an experience which led to him becoming what he terms a ‘romantic socialist’,” says the Wikipedia.
“After being called up for war service, he served in the Grenadier Guards, seeing action at Salerno. On VE Day, 8 May 1945, Lyttelton joined in the celebrations by playing his trumpet from a wheelbarrow, inadvertently giving his first broadcast performance; the BBC recording still survives. Following demobilisation after World War II, he attended Camberwell Art College for two years.
“In 1949, he joined the Daily Mail as a cartoonist, where he remained until 1956.”
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Daily Mail – ‘I’m sorry. I haven’t a clue how I’ll get over Humph’s death’ Friends mourn jazz genius Lyttelton, April 27, 2008
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