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Friday, 20 December 2019

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 20th March 2006





"BED-FELLOWS" The Start of a theme

 What's next on the record shelf ?










Mutt Carey, Fidgety Feet
Benny Carter, Another time, Another place
Cleo Brown, That's My Gal
Clifford Brown, Falling in Love with love
David Newton, Scotch Blues
Frankie Newton, Frankie's Blues
Ry Cooder - Ali Farka Toure, Bonde
Eddie Condon, St James Infirmary
Leah Riley, You Took advantage of Me
Annie Whitehead, Remembering
Bunk Johnson, One Sweet letter from You
J J Johnson, This could be the start'

Look on the shelf Here

Humphrey Lyttelton "Humphs - 80th - Birthday" 

The "RadioHead" Collaboration 

A broadcast on BBC Radio Two in 2001 celebrates the 80th Birthday of "Humph" and his collaboration with the rock band "Radio Head"  in a new production.

Life in a Glass House

Interview by Courtney Pine, features comments by Jim Tomlinson, Stacey Kent,
Elkie Brooks, Helen Shapiro, Wally Fawkes, George Webb, Georgie Fame, Kathy Stobart, & George Melly

link Here

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 27th March 2006


Theme
  "The Great Variety"








Herb Ellis Sextet, Pogo (1955)
Gospel "One Day" Angelic singers/Dixie humming birds
Deep Blue Organ Trio, Cafe Regio's
Bobbie Wellins, Be my Love
Chris Hodgkins, Stalking
Mick Pyne Trio, Everything Happens to Me
Back to Basie, 16 Men Swinging
Teazer No 1, Pianist?  Got it and Gone
Cassandra Wilson, Red River Valley
Duke Ellington, Brazilians


Variations  ALL


Monday, 16 December 2019

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" Tributes...

Humph 2004


Barney Kessle  2004

(picture from Jazz Journal international)








From May 2004 
Download link to the MP3 file  Barney Kessle
Dropbox :Play it Now link Here

Saturday, 14 December 2019

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.



Friday, 13 December 2019

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