Track Listing

1. A Good Buzz
2. Willow Weep For Me
3. Go, Jo!
4. Portuguese Folk Song
5. Snow Time
6. Echoes Of The Duke
7. Wicker Woman
8. Sea Lion Siesta
9. M.25
10. Blues In Thirds
11. Makin' Whoopee
12. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
13. Walk The Walk
14. Trouble In Mind
15. None Doomy
16. Real Heavy
17. D'You Think We Should?
18. Summertime

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64472 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-07
• Number of discs: 1

The Observer, (Dave Gelly), May 13, 2007
For originality, swing and sheer entertaining variety, this set of
18 numbers is hard to beat.

Album Description
The veteran jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton who celebrates 60 years as leader of his own band in 2008 was recently the subject of the South Bank Show. Eighty-five years old, Lyttelton is today busier than ever. His band, one of the most versatile in the world, still tours regularly throughout Europe, and performs at open air Summer Festival concerts and theatres around the country. Every Monday night for over thirty years he has presented The Best of Jazz on Radio 2 and he's the chairman of the BBC Radio 4 panel game `I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'.

Lyttelton has always recruited his bands from the best of the UK's jazz musicians and this one is no exception with saxophonists Jimmy Hastings and Karen Sharp, trombonist Ray Wordsworth and pianist Ted Beament. They perform a selection of originals and classic jazz tunes and are joined on four tracks by the clarinettist Acker Bilk.

The Observer said of Humph: "All his bands have been good ones, and his present one is outstanding. His own playing, bright and fiery, reached a high plateau some time in the mid-Fifties from which it has never descended."

Personnel: Humphrey Lyttelton - (trumpet, clarinet), Jimmy Hastings - (alto sax, flute, bass clarinet), Karen Sharp - (baritone & tenor sax, clarinet), Ray Wordsworth - (trombone), Jo Fooks - (tenor sax, flute), Ted Beament - (piano), John Rees-Jones - (bass), Adrian Macintosh - (drums), Acker Bilk - (clarinet) (10,12,17)

Customer Reviews

At his Best!
For those who remember the fabulous Coe-Skidmore-Temperley line up, this is just the thing! Great album with a great reed section! More please, Humph!