Humphrey Lyttelton
Biography
Veteran trad-jazz trumpeter and brilliantly deadpan chairman of ISIHAC, Humphrey Lyttelton was born on 23 May 1921 in Eton, where his father was a master at the famous public school. Humphrey would go on to attend the school himself and it was there that he formed his first band.
After leaving school, he worked for a time in the steel plate works in Port Talbot before being called up for war service in the Grenadier Guards. After being demobbed, he went to art college and went on to become a cartoonist for the Daily Mail. He quit in 1956 as his musical career was by then taking off, and he has remained a leading figure in British jazz ever since - both playing (he still has a hectic touring schedule even in his eighties) and as presenter of Radio 2's Best of Jazz programme, which he has hosted since 1967.
Trivia
He is the president of the Society for Italic Handwriting.
Played trumpet on a track for Radiohead.
