I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue’s Humphrey Lyttelton In Conversation: Play As I Please Audiobook (Free)

Humph – bandleader, cartoonist, writer, chairman of BBC Radio 4’s I AM SORRY We Haven’t A Clue, president from the Culture for Italic Handwriting and doyen of jazz trumpeters. In discussion with June Knox-Mawer, Humphrey Lyttelton reflects on his incredible life; from schooldays at Eton and playing away ‘Roll Out the Barrel’ outdoors Buckingham Palace on VE Day time, to the forming of his band in 1948 and his emergence as ‘the godfather of English jazz’. In his extremely varied profession he was a cartoonist for the Daily Mail, a journalist for Punch as well as formed his personal record company. In this documenting he shares his pleasure of music along with his cherished humour. It’s a wry, witty and wonderful story informed in his characteristically urbane design and peppered with a few of his personal great jazz favourites.