Classical music and jazz: Preview - Humphrey Lyttelton Hammersmith Apollo Celebration Concert
Published: 11 March 2010
BY SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
AN exhilarating evening of jazz and jollity is being planned next month to celebrate the life and work of Humphrey Lyttelton, the jazz musician and broadcaster.
A concert on Sunday April 25 at the Hammersmith Apollo will bring together members of his changing bands over the years, other great jazz musicians and the I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue radio team.
“Money raised through the concert will go towards launching the Humph Trust to fund an annual Humphrey Lyttelton Royal Academy of Music Jazz Award to support and develop careers of budding jazz talent,” says Stephen Lyttelton, Humph’s son, who is arranging the concert.
Members of Humph bands at the concert include Wally Fawkes, the legendary clarinettist/ soprano saxist, and founder-member of the Humphrey Lyttelton band in the late 1940s.
Other Humph band members are expected to include Ted Beament trombone; Ray Wordsworth trombone; Jimmy Hastings alto sax/clarinet; John Rees-Jones double-bass; Robert Fowler tenor sax; Adrian Macintosh drummer.
Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band will be there as will Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen along with Stacey Kent, Annie Whitehead, Louise Parker, Tina May, Elkie Brooks, Courtney Pine, Jools Holland and Ben Waters. Humph’s broadcasting years will be represented by, among others, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Jack Dee and Colin Sell.
• Humphrey Lyttelton Celebration Concert, HMV Hammersmith Apollo, 08448 444 748, 7pm, from £25