Born at Eton College - one of England's most prestigious schools where his
father was a house master - "Humph" Lyttelton grew up to become one of the
country's finest trumpeters, the face of British jazz and a greatly loved
broadcaster and national institution. His love of jazz was forged at Eton
through listening to greats like Louis Armstrong and Nat Gonella and he formed
his first group while still at the school in 1936. After serving in the
Grenadier Guards in the Second World War, he studied at Camberwell School of Art
and became a cartoonist with the Daily Mail newspaper in...