Track Listing

1. Bad Penny Blues
2. March Hare
3. Onions
4. One Man Went To Blow
5. PTQ Rag
6. Buona Sera
7. Glad Rag Doll
8. Ace In The Hole
9. Just One Of Those Blues
10. Out Of The Galleon
11. Glory Of Love
12. Why Was I Born
13. That's My Home
14. Christopher Columbus
15. Swing Out
16. Coffee Grinder
17. You Brought A New Kind Of Love
18. Hoppin' Mad
19. Early Call
20. Looking For Tina
21. Apex Blues
22. I Want A Little Girl
23. Jersey Lighting
24. Waiting For Pickard
25. Rockin' Chair
26. Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn
27. Just Squeeze Me
28. Ole Miss Rag
29. Wolverine Blues
30. Down Home Rag
31. Lady In Red
32. Get Out Of Here And Go Home
33. She's Crying For Me
34. Panama Rag
35. Pagin' Mr Fagin
36. Trouble In Mind
37. Skeleton In The Cupboard
38. Tom Cat Blues
39. Maple Leaf Rag
40. Doin' The Rounds
41. On Treasure Island
42. Travellin' Blues
43. Chattanooga Stomp
44. 1919 March
45. Trogs Blues
46. Creole Serenade
47. Fish Seller
48. Dallas Blues
49. Red Beans And Rice
50. Low Down Dirty Shame Blues
51. Red For Piccadilly
52. Irish Black Bottom
53. Mardi Gras
54. DJC Blues
55. Old Grey Mare
56. Martiniquien Song
57. Suffolk Air
58. Garemouth Blues
59. It's Over Now
60. Closing Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1938 in Music
• Released on: 2003-04-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .63 pounds

Customer Reviews

Incredible value for some classic tracks
60 tracks for £10 is amazing, the 3 CD's cover from 1950 through 1957 and contain some great music. The bands all have a character of their own, not just copying previous styles or people, but playing interesting tunes with skill and imagination with each musician being readily identifiable.
I had forgotten how much like Omer Simeon, Wally Fawkes could be and the sheer drive of Humphrey Lyttleton's trumpet lead.
This is a really great collection of swinging music with tremendous vitality and variety.

Incredible Stuff
I grew up with this music in England in the late 40's, 50's and 60's before emigrating to Canada in 1967. I brought most of it with me (on 78's, 10 and 12 inch LP's, EP's and singles.) Some I left behind for fear of breakage (78's) and limited space. This is the essence of the greatest traditional Jazz coming out of Britain...ever! In fact, during the late 40's and early 50's, Jazz in the US was losing popularity to some degree. It is thought that Britain's growing entheusiasm for Trad Jazz, and the upcoming young players like Humph, actually, and fortunately kept it alive. Humphrey Lyttleton in my book (And Louis Armstrong's book by the way) was, and still is the best trumpet player that Britain has ever produced. The rest of the globe would also be hard pressed to equal or better it. This CD covers nearly all of the great tracks (that I still have on records,) and will enable me to still listen to them without worrying about damage to the originals. My favourite??? "Cake Walkin' Babies"... Don't think I have heard of anything that has the cristpness, drive, and back-ground rythme as this one..It lifts the soul. Play it when you feel down and you will be on top of the world.
I first heard it at Humph's Jazz club in the basement of 100 Oxford street..(you remeber!)....and so glad that it was cut on record, and now remastered on CD..... Oh, I haven't bought it yet, but will when I sort out some of the other ones to go with it. (like Parlaphone Vol I....)I've just discovered this website I'm glad to say....... Enjoy.

POOR PRESENTATION FOR SUCH MINIATURE MASTERPIECES
To get the negative comment out of the way first,this compilation merits five stars for musical content, and the only reason I've docked one star is because of the slipshod presentation by EMI Gold. This is the company for which Humph recorded in the 78 era, from whence most if not all of these sides were drawn, yet the tracklist contains no reference to the personnel involved, and only an indication of the year, which is not always accurate. Furthermore, since the relatively brief liner note by Stuart Nicholson comments that "Represented here are three key periods of Lyttelton's distinguished career...early New Orleans Revivalist jazz,....the Johnny Hodges jump style...to the smoothly interlocking mainstream.." it would have been intelligent to have organised this 3CD set in such a way as to chart that chronological progression, rather than in random order.

Having said that, Humph's instantly identifiable style transcends those limitations. His strong trumpet lead provided a rallying point for his troops, and urged them on to even greater feats of musicianship. Underpinning everything lay a superb rhythm section, which ensured that there was no loss of momentum either in the up-tempo numbers or, more difficult to sustain, the slow stately pieces. There is not a dull track here, and hearing them again recaptures the spirit of the fifties in which they were created.