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Last Chorus By Humphrey Lyttelton

Posted at 11:47AM Tuesday 30 Dec 2008

Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley
ISBN: 9781906217181

Born in 1921, Humph died in April this year, but his spirit marches on at a jaunty beat to Basin Street blues, in some ghostly New Orleans of the mind. You find him here in all of his guises – a man who found his niche early and spent his long life doing what he most loved.

That life is recorded here in self-explanatory segments. If you want to catch Humph in short trousers go to Part 1, "It Seems Like Yesterday"; for Humph the heady career musician go to Part 3, "London Jazz"; and, in between, Humph, the Second World War signals officer in Part 2, "The Soldier's Lament".

Layer on layer, the picture forms of a genial man whose lifetime resilience was to culminate in surviving a fall downstairs well into his eighties

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