Track Listing

1. Heavenless
2. My Blue Jacket
3. Waiting For Picard
4. Daydream
5. Miss J & K
6. Swallowing The Blues
7. Blue Note Bounce
8. Medley: I Got Rhythm / Rhythm-A-Ning / Lester Leaps / Cottontail
9. Up To Speed
10. Big Ol' Tears
11. It's A Thing
12. Soukora
13. Cool, Cute, Entrancing
14. Mairzy Doats
15. Bottom Line
16. Embraceable You
17. Doesn't Time Fly

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67028 in Music
• Released on: 2007-12-03
• Number of discs: 1

The Observer, (Dave Gelly), January 27, 2008
The really impressive thing about Humph is his complete refusal to conform...his best band for years.

Album Description
The veteran jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton who celebrates 60 years as leader of his own band in 2008 was the subject of the South Bank Show in 2007. 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'.

Humphrey 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, classic jazz tunes plus one or two surprising selections, including a ska number by Don Drummond and a composition by the late Malian musician Ali Farka Toure. 'Cornucopia 2' features two special guests, vocalist Tina May and trombonist Annie Whitehead, who each perform on four tracks.

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)

Special guests:
Tina May - (vocals), Annie Whitehead - (trombone)

Customer Reviews

One of the peaks of Humph's career
This review is deliberately short since it is just my response to the disc and verbal descriptions of music can often be a waste. I found this to be better than Cornucopia Vol.1. The music is at one of the peaks of Humph's career being the later music that featured 'arranged music' that was then produced with tight ensemble playing. To see just how tight the playing is one can listen to Buck Claytons band on american recordings and hear the same approach, but lessened in impact because of the 'looser' sound. This volume (2) also has some vocals which I found acceptable which is a great credit to them since I cannot usually listen to this type of jazz vocal.