Humphrey Lyttelton (b. May 23, 1921) is a well-known British jazz musician and chairman of the radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, and the cousin of Viscount Cobham, the 8th Baron Lyttelton. May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Im Sorry I Havent A Clue, often abbreviated to the initialism ISIHAC, is a radio comedy programme which has been broadcast several times annually on BBC Radio 4 from April 11, 1972 to the present. ... Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham ( 1909– 1977) was a New Zealand political figure. ... Baron Lyttelton is a Baronial in the British peerage, which has been created twice, though both times to the same family, being awarded to William Henry Lyttelton in 1794 some fifteen years after his nephew, Thomas Lyttelton, died without legitimate issue. ...

Lyttelton attended Sunningdale Preparatory School and then Eton College, where his father was a housemaster (and, indeed, where he had been born). At Eton he developed his love for jazz, forming a quartet there in 1936, which included future journalist Ludovic Kennedy on drums, after teaching himself the trumpet. After leaving school, he served in the Grenadier Guards. Following demob after World War II, he attended Camberwell Art College for two years. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys located in Eton, Berkshire near Windsor in England, located about a mile north of Windsor Castle. ... Trumpeter performing with the United States Air Forces in Europe Band The trumpet is a brass instrument. ... The British Grenadier Guards are one of the older, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Categories: Stub | University of the Arts London | Art schools | Visual arts in the United Kingdom ...

In 1949, he joined the Daily Mail as a cartoonist, where he remained until 1956. The front page of the Daily Mail on the 7th February 2005. ... A cartoonist at work. ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s Lyttelton was prominent in the British revival of traditional jazz forms, from New Orleans, recording with Sidney Bechet in 1949, necessitating the break of Musician Union restrictive practices which forbed working with jazz musicians from the USA. In 1956, he had his only hit, Bad Penny Blues, which was in the UK charts for 6 weeks. As the trad movement (not quite the same thing as revivalism) developed, Lyttelton moved to a mainstream approach favoured by American musicians such as trumpeter Buck Clayton; they recorded together in the early 1960s. By now his repetory had expanded, not only including lesser known Ellington pieces, but even "The Champ" from Dizzy Gillespie's band book. The Lyttelton band - he sees himself primarily as a leader - has helped develop the careers of many now prominent British musicians, including Tony Coe and Alan Barnes Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 - May 14, 1959) was a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. ... Mainstream is a term most often applied in the arts—i. ... Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (Born: April 29, 1899 in Washington, DC – Died: May 24, 1974 in New York City) was an American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader. ... Dizzy Gillespie photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Dizzy Gillespie ( October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993) was born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina. ...

Lyttelton has presented The Best of Jazz on BBC Radio 2 since 1967. Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations. ...

In 1972, he was chosen to host the free-form comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue on BBC Radio 4, a role he still performs. Im Sorry I Havent A Clue, often abbreviated to the initialism ISIHAC, is a radio comedy programme which has been broadcast several times annually on BBC Radio 4 from April 11, 1972 to the present. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

In 2001, Lyttleton and his band added trad jazz elements to a free-form, experimental Radiohead song "Life In A Glass House" on the Amnesiac album. L to R: Ed OBrien, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Phil Selway and Colin Greenwood Radiohead are a British alternative rock band from Oxford. ... This article is about the Radiohead album called Amnesiac. ...

As well as his other activities, Lyttleton is a keen calligrapher, as President of The Society for Italic Handwriting. He named his record label, Calligraph, which was founded in the early 1980s, after his extra-curricular interest. Not only has the label been used for issuing his own new albums, and those of associates, but his recordings for the Parlophone label in the 1950s have been reissued on CD via the imprint. Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of 1407 AD on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ...

Books

• Humphrey Lyttelton: The Best of Jazz (Robson Books: London, 1998) (423pp.; ISBN 1861051875)