Even as a young man Humphrey Lyttelton, who has died aged 86, always seemed a jazz patriarch, and throughout his life his arrival at any jazz event somehow raised the social temperature, like the ...

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Jazz legend and radio host Humphrey Lyttelton has died in hospital at the age of 86. Lyttelton had been admitted earlier this month to the Barnet Hospital in north London, where he underwent surgery ...

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. He was the ...

[Humphrey Lyttelton was an] immense talent, and not only as a trumpeter, but as a band leader. He was a great songwriter and lyricist. I'll remember his wit onstage with the band. It wasn't just I'm ...

On April 10, jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton performed at the Bull’s Head pub in Barnes, south-west London, 42 years after he first played there. Two weeks later ...

For all his varied talents, Lyttelton was a remarkably modest and unambitious man. He always claimed that his career had simply happened to him as he went around pursuing his interests. But his ...