The author writes about the great jazz soloists of the thirties, including Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Lester Young, Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday, assessing their influence on jazz history and on each other. Intended for the novice jazz fan.

Best of Jazz: Enter the Giants v. 2

Arts & Photography

Humphrey Lyttelton

Music

Allen& Unwin

<p>This highly original book is a must for the novice jazz fan and aficionado alike. Looking in detail at a wide range of great jazz figures and their classic recordings, the inimitable Humphrey Lyttelton provides plenty of lively historical background, often taken from the reminiscences of the musicians involved. Artists discussed in the book include Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Billie Holliday, and many others.</p>

The Best Of Jazz: Basin Street To Harlem. Jazz Masters And Masterpieces 1917-1930

Penguin??Books

The Best of Jazz II: Enter the Giants, 1931-1944

Taplinger

A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey Lyttelton's last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes, and entertaining stories from his colourful life, from his childhood as the son of a famous Eton Housemaster, through to his role as the irrepressible chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. A Renaissance man - musician, writer, cartoonist, calligrapher and broadcaster - Humph was descended from a long line of land-owning, political, literary, clerical, scholastic and literary forebears. One of his more notorious relatives was executed for his part in the Gun Powder Plot! Last Chorus draws on some of Humph's long-lost auto-biographical writings, as well a wealth of other material, including his never-before-seen private diaries, plus cartoons and Whether sneaking off when a child to buy his first trumpet, or wading ashore in Italy during World War II with a rifle in one hand and a trumpet in the other, or playing alongside such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Humph was very much his own man, and he comes vividly to life in this engaging and witty self-portrait. Every Monday night from 1967 until 2008, Humphrey Lyttelton wrote and presented BBC's The Best of Jazz, and he was, famously, Chairman of the anarchic, award-winning radio programme, I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue. He wrote nine books, and composed over two hundred tunes, and has Honorary Doctorates at the universities of Warwick, Loughborough, Durham, Keele, Hertford and de Montfort.

Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley

Jr Books Ltd

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