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Topped and tailed by four bonus tracks, this is an otherwise straightforward (and certainly long-awaited) reissue of Humphrey Lyttelton's best-known and most all-pervasively influential album, the 1957 set that he titled, fittingly, after the first volume of his own autobiography. Widely regarded among the most adventurous of all the players bound up in the British trad boom of the mid- to late '50s, Lyttelton had already broken any number of seemingly inviolate rules by the time he teamed with producer Denis Preston to cut this set -- including the addition of a saxophone and the omission of the banjo. Now it was time to push even further. In terms of numerical strength, three bands appear on this album -- the seven-piece Humphrey Lyttelton Band, an expanded 12-man big band, and the so-called Humphrey Lyttelton Paseo Band, a nine-piece that eschewed horns for flutes, then added a riot of percussion to the mix. It's a heady blend that had traditionalists wringing their hands in despair when the album first appeared, but time (and, of course, the eventual acceptance of many of the ideas Lyttelton first posited) readily vindicates the album's audacity. For collectors, meanwhile, the set is bolstered by both sides of two singles recorded by the regular Lyttelton Band around the same time as I Play As I Please came together, the self-explanatory "Dixie Theme" and the sultry "Blues in the Afternoon."
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lyttelton Humphrey, Composer, Lyricist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lyttelton Humphrey Richard Ade, Composer, Lyricist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Skidmore Jimmy, Composer, Lyricist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Hart Lorenz, Composer, Lyricist - Rodgers Richard, Composer, Lyricist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Sebastián Yradier, Composer, Lyricist - Humphrey Richard Ade Lyttelton, Composer, Lyricist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Hodges Johnny, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lyttelton Humphrey Richard Ade, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Endsley Melvin, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lyttelton Humphrey, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lyttelton Humphrey, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lombardo Carmen, Composer, Lyricist - Newman Charles Chas, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - Lyttelton Humphrey, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Humphrey Lyttelton, MainArtist - De Rose Peter, Composer, Lyricist - Sigman Carl, Composer, Lyricist
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
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Topped and tailed by four bonus tracks, this is an otherwise straightforward (and certainly long-awaited) reissue of Humphrey Lyttelton's best-known and most all-pervasively influential album, the 1957 set that he titled, fittingly, after the first volume of his own autobiography. Widely regarded among the most adventurous of all the players bound up in the British trad boom of the mid- to late '50s, Lyttelton had already broken any number of seemingly inviolate rules by the time he teamed with producer Denis Preston to cut this set -- including the addition of a saxophone and the omission of the banjo. Now it was time to push even further. In terms of numerical strength, three bands appear on this album -- the seven-piece Humphrey Lyttelton Band, an expanded 12-man big band, and the so-called Humphrey Lyttelton Paseo Band, a nine-piece that eschewed horns for flutes, then added a riot of percussion to the mix. It's a heady blend that had traditionalists wringing their hands in despair when the album first appeared, but time (and, of course, the eventual acceptance of many of the ideas Lyttelton first posited) readily vindicates the album's audacity. For collectors, meanwhile, the set is bolstered by both sides of two singles recorded by the regular Lyttelton Band around the same time as I Play As I Please came together, the self-explanatory "Dixie Theme" and the sultry "Blues in the Afternoon."
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:21
- Main artists: Humphrey Lyttelton
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Lake Records
- Genre: Jazz Moderne jazz
2008 Fellside 2008 Fellside
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