Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" Tributes...

"Happy 80th Birthday Wally"   Wally Fawkes (Trog)

--------------------- June 2004 ----------------------

Tribute to Trog

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz"  NEWS !!

 Found !!

Two more shows from 5th Feb 2007

(Short 2/3rds of a show only)  and

12th Feb 2007 missing only the intro

Both thanks to an anonymous donor

will be posted once converted.

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" to be continued... 

                  Taking the opportunity of this gap in the archive, until the next batch of shows dated back from the 27th March 2006 are processed, I will be presenting special shows featuring tributes to members of Humph's band that have sadly passed on or that have achieved significant milestones in their life.

            Number One .. Pete Strange   

"Humph"

Young Pete Strange (with Quiff) (Discogs)


Peter Vacher, wrote for the Guardian Wed 18 Aug 2004

Jazz trombonists are by nature a gregarious, often bibulous bunch, and Pete Strange, who has died of cancer aged 65, was no exception to the rule. He loved the company of fellow musicians, enjoyed a pint, but most of all lived to play first-rate jazz.

Strange's family were from Plaistow in east London, where his father worked for Cable and Wireless. The youngest of three brothers, Strange caught the jazz bug in the 1950s when one of his siblings brought home a Humphrey Lyttelton record. According to Strange's wife Cath, the invitation for him to join the later Lyttelton band as a full-time member in 1983 came as the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition.

Strange adopted the trombone at school in East Ham, after having started out on the violin, and soon found a coterie of musician friends who liked jazz, too.

"A Technical bit or two"

This recording was made in September 2004 from Radio Two digital satellite channel, it was saved directly from a Hauppauge Satellite PC card in variable bit rate (128-256k) mode, so may sound a little better that some of the other shows that have come from FM via DAT audio tapes.

R.I.P Pete Strange

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 10th April 2006                    

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz"  3rd April 2006

Both above weeks are missing from the archive, if anyone has a reasonable copy of either I would be pleased to post it here.

Thank you.

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 17th April 2006

On the Lighter side

"Bed Fellows"

Lee Konitz, Just Friends

Irene Kral, You Were There

George Shearing, Easy to Love

Archie Shepp, Body & Soul

Big Joe Turner, Morning Glory

Stan Tracey, Doing it for Art'

Miff Mole Mollers, Feelin' no Pain

Thelonious Monk - Charlie Rice, Hackensak

Mills Brothers - Louis Armstrong, Nelly Grey

Charles Mingus, Better Get it in your Soul

Next on the Rack

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz"  24th April 2006

Theme 
"Cryptic Clues"

Teazer No 1 Guitarist on "Booze Blues"

Monty Sunshine, New Orleans Fooler

Teazer No 2 Who Sings "Going to Chicago"

Jacky McLean, Cyclical

Michel Petrucciani, She did it Again

Wild Bill Davidson, Sugar

Eric Dolphy, Come Sunday

Johnny Dodds, Melancholy Blues

Sarah Vaughan, Wrap your troubles in Dreams

Benet Mclean Qt, Raynd Midnight

Decryption begins  Here

Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz Instruments 6 of 6

Part 6 "The Double Bass"

These recordings are taken from the BBC Radio 2 long running series
"the Best of Jazz" compiled & produced by Humph himself.

In this series, Humph breaks the Jazz band/Orchestra's instruments
down one by one, with style examples of each in recordings from
1928 up to the 2000's.

Examples:

1. Johnny Dodds - Bill Johnson, Bull Fiddle Blues
2. Louis Russell - George "pops" Foster, Panama
3. Charles Thompson - Walter Page, Mean Baby
4. Duke Ellington - Jimmy Blanton, Jack the Bear
5. Charlie Parker - Tommy Potter, Donna Lee
6. MJQ - Percy Heath, Vendome
7. Bill Evans Trio - Gary Peacock, Little Lou
8. Miles Davis - Dave Holland, Spanish Key
9. Charles Mingus, Mood Indigo
10. Don Byas - Slam Stewart, I Got Rhythm

Slap or Strum  Here