Sunday Jazz 11th May 2008

Featured Artist: Humphrey Littleton

 

An English jazz musician and broadcaster, and chairman of the BBC radio programme "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", Humphrey Littleton helped to popularise Orleans jazz music in the UK during the 1950’s and 1960’s. 

 

In 1968, at the request of NASA, Lyttelton went to the United States to play a selection of jazz numbers which were broadcast live to the crew of the Apollo 8 space craft. In 2001, Lyttelton and his band added traditional jazz elements to the Radiohead song "Life in a Glasshouse" on the Amnesiac album.

 

Lyttelton died peacefully following surgery for an aortic aneurysm on 25 April 2008 with his family around him.

 

 

 

Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island

Humphrey Lyttleton – Looking For Turner

Nina Simone – Wild Is The Wind

The Tilbury Band – Georgia On My Mind

Hank Crawford – In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

Miles Davis – When I Fall In Love

Michelle Rounds – Take 5

Humphrey Lyttleton – Doin’ The Rounds

Glenn Miller - Pennsylvania 6-5000

The Lemongrove – Tangerine

Bud Powell – Anight in Tunisia

James Taylor Quartet – Oscar

Peggy Lee – Fever

Count Basie – Come Fly With Me

Wes Montgomery – Summertime

Cannonball Adderley – Corcovado

Art Blakey – Blues March

Humphrey Lyttleton – Last Mile Blues

Charlie Parker – Ornithology

Aisha Duo – Amanda

Julie London – Fly Me To The Moon

Lou Rawls – For What It’s Worth

Humphrey Lyttleton – That’s My Home