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| 1. | Take a Note from the South * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 2. | Open House * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 3. | Hook, Line and Sinker * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 4. | Backroom Joys * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 5. | Apples Be Ripe * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 6. | Midnight Creep * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 7. | Small Hour Fantasy * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 8. | Sweet Muscatel * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 9. | Get It * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 10. | Stay with It * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 11. | Ugly Duckling * Graeme Bell & His Austrailian Jazz Band, , Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 12. | Friendless Blues * The Grant-Lyttelton Paseo Jazz Band,
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| 13. | Fat Tuesday * The Grant-Lyttelton Paseo Jazz Band,
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| 14. | Original Jelly Roll Blues * The Grant-Lyttelton Paseo Jazz Band,
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| 15. | King Porter Stomp * The Grant-Lyttelton Paseo Jazz Band,
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| 16. | London Blues * The Grant-Lyttelton Paseo Jazz Band,
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| 17. | Mike's Tangana * The Grant-Lyttelton Paseo Jazz Band,
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| 18. | Ain't Misbehavin' * Marie Bryant, Mike McKenzie Quartet
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| 19. | Beale Street Blues * Marie Bryant, Mike McKenzie Quartet
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| 20. | Georgia on My Mind * Marie Bryant, Mike McKenzie Quartet
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| 21. | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams * Marie Bryant, Mike McKenzie Quartet
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| 22. | Muskrat Ramble * Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 23. | Mamzelle Josephine * Humphrey Lyttelton
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| 24. | Mainly Traditional * Melody Maker All Stars
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| 25. | Oh! Dad * Melody Maker All Stars
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| 26. | Ace in the Hole * Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band
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Jazz / Swing
In the late '40s, Humphrey Lyttelton became one of the most important trad jazz trumpeters in England, a decade before the trad boom caught on big. Four CDs of Lyttleton's 1951-1954 recordings were reissued by the Calligraph label in the mid-'90s. This Sackville CD has all of his remaining recordings from the period, finishing the job left undone by a different label. Lyttleton and sometimes trombonist Keith Christie and clarinetist Wally Fawkes are teamed with the visiting Australians, pianist Graeme Bell and Lazy Ade Monsbourgh (heard here on alto) for the first 11 selections. On many of these tracks, the band sounds close to that of Luis Russell's of 1929, with Lyttleton emulating Red Allen and Christie sounding a lot like J.C. Higginbotham. Eight other numbers are particularly intriguing for Lyttleton and part of his band teams up with four musicians from the Caribbean who add congas, bongos, maracas, and a Latin rhythm section to a Dixieland setting to create unique-sounding music. Such Jelly Roll Morton songs as "London Blues," "King Porter Stomp," and "Original Jelly Roll Blues" are really given the Latin tinge. In addition to a few leftover numbers, Lyttleton is also featured as part of a combo backing singer Marie Bryant on four standards; these are among Bryant's few recordings. She is most famous for being the singer in the Lester Young short film Jammin' the Blues. Fans of revival jazz will definitely want this well-conceived set, along with the earlier Calligraphs.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Humphrey Lyttelton
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: May 23, 1921 in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: Apr 25, 2008 in London, England
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Dixieland, Swing, Mainstream Jazz, Trad Jazz
The grand old man of British jazz, trumpeter and bandleader Humphrey Lyttelton spearheaded the postwar trad-jazz revival before renouncing the movement in favor of more contemporary and restless creative vision--a larger-than-life figure, he also excelled as a writer and cartoonist, and for decades was a fixture of radio, serving as the hilariously deadpan host of the long-running "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue." Born in Eton on May 23, 1921, Lyttelton was the product of a distinguished and wealthy family--a lifelong jazz enthusiast, he received his first trumpet at age 15 and formed a band with some Eton College classmates. He also studied military drumming under a former Coldstream Guards drum major and joined the school band as a percussionist. Lyttelton enlisted in the British Army on D-Day and saw combat in Italy--on leave in London he sat in with local jazz bands, and upon returning to civilian life in 1945 he enrolled at the Camberwell School of Art. In March 1947, he signed on with semi-professional trad-jazz combo George Webb's Dixielanders; when Dixielanders clarinetist and professional cartoonist Wally Fawkes was promoted to write and illustrate a full-fledged daily strip for -The Daily Mail, Lyttelton was tapped to fill Fawkes' previous position sketching "column-breakers"--i.e., humorous or decorative drawings inserted into the text. He also reviewed jazz and classical recordings for the newspaper, and later scripted the Fawkes-drawn strip -Flook as well.
In early 1948 Lyttelton resigned from the Dixielanders to found his own group, bringing Fawkes and later pianist Webb with him--with the subsequent additions of Blackpool-born brothers Keith (trombone) and Ian Christie (clarinet), the group emerged at the forefront of the trad-jazz renaissance. With Lyttelton's declamatory trumpet out front, the group's reverential, New Orleans-inspired sound proved a commercial juggernaut--in late 1949, they signed to Parlophone, and their 78 rpm efforts sold so consistently that the label issued a new release each month until introducing the LP format several years later. However, Lyttelton quickly felt smothered within the narrow creative confines of the trad-jazz sound and began embracing Latin and African rhythms as early as 1951--he also exploited new technologies, employing multi-track recording techniques to play trumpet, clarinet, piano and washboard on "One Man Went to Blow." Most notably--and to the endless chagrin of purists--Lyttelton soon abandoned the accepted trumpet-clarinet-trombone format to introduce saxophones into the equation, and as his musical aspirations evolved, so did the lineup of his support staff: The Lyttelton band was the launching pad for a multitude of fledgling jazz greats, among them saxophonists Tony Coe, Danny Moss, Alan Barnes, Joe Temperley, John Barnes and Karen Sharp as well as trombonists Roy Williams, Pete Strange and John Picard. The group also backed visiting American giants like Sidney Bechet, Jimmy Rushing and Buck Clayton.
With 1956's self-penned "Bad Penny Blues," Lyttelton scored British jazz's first-ever Top 20 U.K. pop hit--the group went on to tour Europe and the Middle East, and in 1959 joined Thelonious Monk and Anita O'Day on a trek across the U.S. As the trad-jazz vogue gave way to rock and roll, Lyttelton continued performing, but he also launched a secondary career as a broadcaster--his witty and informal presence made him a natural for radio, and in 1966 he was awarded his own BBC series, "The Best of Jazz," which he helmed for over four decades. Six years later, he was also appointed host of the spoof panel game "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue," a program notorious for its abundance of double entendres. He also continued his writing, over the course of his lifetime publishing a series of books including -I Play as I Please, Second Course, Take It from the Top, Why No Beethoven and It Just Occurred to Me…--for a time, he even served as a restaurant critic. Another hobby was calligraphy: Lyttelton received a set of calligraphic pens upon his father's death, and proved so adept that he was elected president of the Society for Italic Handwriting. The craft even lent its name to his own label, Calligraph Records, which served to re-release his classic recordings on CD. A new generation of listeners was exposed to Lyttelton's work in 2001 when he guested on the Radiohead album Amnesiac. On March 11, 2008, he announced his retirement from "The Best of Jazz"--weeks later, he died following heart surgery on April 25.
---Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide |
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