Remembering Humph – Humphrey Lyttelton
Band
with special guest Wally
Fawkes
At the Concorde
Club
Wednesday 18th February at 9pm
Humphrey
Lyttelton May 23rd 1921 - April 25th
2008
Humphrey Lyttelton was perhaps the UK's most influential jazz
performer. Beyond this, he was a noted raconteur and wit and
chairman of BBC Radio 4's long-running I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
In this concert the Humphrey Lyttelton Band will be paying their
tribute to the irreplaceable performer, remembering Humph and
presenting his music.
They are joined in this concert by Wally Fawkes.
Wally Fawkes the jazz clarinettist and, until
recently, a satirical cartoonist, was born 1924 in Vancouver,
Canada and emigrated to England in 1931. As a cartoonist, he
generally worked under the name of 'Trog' until failing eyesight
forced him to retire from cartooning in 2005 at the age of 81 to
concentrate solely on his clarinet playing. He was a founder-member
of the original Humphrey Lyttelton revivalist jazz band in the late
1940s, and stayed with the band until 1956, by which time it had
evolved from 'revivalism' into 'mainstream' - not that Fawkes
minded that: his own bands from then on could be broadly described
as 'mainstream'. He has re-united with Lyttelton periodically ever
since, and, though highly talented on his instrument, remains (in
the best sense of the term) an 'amateur'. He has never lost his
admiration for the playing of Sidney Bechet (with whom he recorded,
as part of Lyttelton's band, in 1949); but he has always been his
own man on the clarinet, and not just a Bechet clone. He played
with George Melly and John Chilton in the Feetwarmers band in the
early 1970s
His most famous work as a cartoonist was 'Flook' - the unlikely and
increasingly satirical comic-strip adventures of its small and
furry eponymous hero, the most notable adventures occurring during
the 1960s.
Tickets:
Members £16
Non members £21
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