The Ciitlwroe Advertiser & Times, June 12,1964


SECOND JAZZ FESTIVAL! SHOULD ATTRACT BIG CROWDS TO CASTLE


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Flashback to last year. Concentration is written on the faces of these five who obviously cainc to listen to all the bands had to offer.


QLITHEROE’S second jazz festival will be held tomorrow in the ideal surroundings of the Castle grounds—ideal because there is plenty of room in the grounds to hold a large


audience, seating accommodation is adequate and the hollow in which the bandstand lies makes a fine natural auditorium. At the festival will be some of the North's leading semi-professional bands, a top Mid­


lands group and, of course, the star attraction—Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band. With this line-up the festival should not fail, given good


weather. Last year's festival made a slight profit and with the added attraction of Humph this year’s should be a bigger suc­


repetition of unpleasant inci­ dents that had happened in other towns staging a jazz festival.


that the Castle might be tom apart ancient stone by ancient stone were happily proved wrong for there were no un­ seemly incidents although there were noisy groups re­ maining in the town after the hour of midnight.


But those who predicted


town by crowds of teenagers from cities throughout the North and from Scotland, there was no trouble of any kind. It is to be hoped that this pat­ tern is followed this year as the


Despite the invasion of the


cess. Before last year's - festival ---------------------- many Clitheroe people feared a


continuance of the festival depends two factors — good support and good behaviour.


parade of the bands through the town and they will be welcomed at the Castle bandstand by the Mayoress, Mrs. Hall.


The festival will start with a


festival are the Ged Hone Rag­ time Band, from Manchester, who played some exciting tradi­ tional jazz last year.


Making a return visit to the


from Birmingham, and two Preston bands, the George Jack- son Jazz Band and the Harry Salisbury Quintet complete the supporting line-up to the Hum­ phrey Lyttelton band.


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JAZZ FESTIVAL IN THE CASTLE GROUNDS


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and other Bands to perform Afternoon and Evening Parade 1-45 p.m., Church Brow to Castlo


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]QELICATE feet, whether encased in boots or balancing precariously on stiletto heels stomped in the muddy waters


of the marquee last year. My very misty recollections of Clitheroe’s first Jazz Festival do at least contain memories of the odd dances, odd clothes, and even odder people I saw.


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display of boys and girls (or was it girls and bovs?) of whom cities emptied their streets for the night on to Cfithcroe Castle grounds, it was not unusual to hear a “doan’L go o’er yon*’ in one car and a “oh, yeah man” in the other. Clitheroe Castle Keep could


mingled unobtrusively among the dancers, and many a would-be rowdy turned and saw the invit­ hing smile of an aisatian behind


could withstand that lot. But it did. Shiny black police boots


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sion. tile rain soon began to trickle under the tent, and it became a case of dance in the very crowded dry places, or freely, to your heart's content, in two muddy inches of it! Very odd, but very good fun!


been observed, is all very well in line weather, but on a night when there were one or two good downpours, many a "gone” beat­ nik got, a .sharp awakening from his reverie when a miniature Niagara deluged on to his unwashed locks. And unsatisfied with air inva­


foreseen, was the rain! A marquee, as it lias often


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in many fields, fashion has dictated jazz for some time. The “trad boom” of a couple of years back threw up a number


of traditional groups many of which have by now gone to the wall.


The effect of the boom was to bury several good bands


who did not follow the traditional path and to push into the limbo groups which did not have a banjo-heavy rhythm section.


Although not e x a c t l y


pushed far into the back­ ground a band which has not enjoyed the acclaim it should have had because of the too severe attitude on behalf of the jazzy-minded (as opposed to the jazz-minded) is the Humphrey Lyttleton band— the star attraction at tomor­


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row’s jazz festival. For ray money the greatest trunipe; man Britain has ever


lil^mireAGnilibrph has solidly Wsiicd rrAcr.se . between the


away from the traditional for­ mat, many cf those with an ear lor the Lyttleton sound, and I among them, thought there was a danger of Humph falling be­


hod era and -C traditional. When Humpt decided to break


and the traditionalists in con­ flict that there seemed to be no chance for a band taking the middle course of mainstream


tween two stools. So fiercely were the modernists


iris admiration for the music of Duke Ellington while on the other hand he lws at times played some " funky ’ figures showing that lie lias absorbed some of the blowing of Miles Davis and other East Coast


ence for anv period of Humph s work. I would probably pick those sessions which produced such little masterpieces as " Baby


favourite Humph waxing, not only for the sparingly hot tone Of Humph but the slinky, sen­ sual full-toned alto saxophone of Bruce Turner, who is now leading one of the few bands rivalling Humph in the British


Doll.” "Pagin' Mr- Fagm and " Skeleton in the Cupboard.” "Baby Doll" is bv far ray


mainstream field. CARTOONIST


.toonists of n° mean ability ho ■ has been associated with the


top rank. Humph lias shown prowess in other fields. A car-


Not only a trumpet man of the


also been drawn by one of Humph', most brilliant sidemen


" Flook" cartoon in a national morning newspaper, which has


books, which have, howevci, many serious overtones. Humph


clarinettist Wally Fawkes, now also leading a mainstream outfit. In two witty and amusing


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families in England. His first families in England. His first• cestor of note was Humphrey Littleton (as the name was then spelt), who was hung, drawn and quartered for bis part in the


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Other celebrated fotobrais were Lord George Lyttelton, a


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vernment: Arthur (AttoUon. former Bishop of


nor-General of New Zealand. Born on May 23, 1921, Humph­ rey Lyttelton was educated at


Eton GMlege "’here his father was a famous housemaster foi


was Minister of Production in ChurchUl's wartime government and his first cousin Viscount Cobham was, until 1962, Gover­


GH n e f o n d cousin, Oliver Lyuelton? no’v ^


and tells the story of his life. I And what an interesting lifo


a bandleader. He lias moved away from the confines of the New Orleans formula and today plays music in which th e emphasis is on swing, entertain­ ment and versatility. The versatility of his band has


whom the band has appeared are Louis Armstrong and his All Stars, Sidney Bechet, Eddie Condon's All Stars, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, blues singer Jimmy Rushing, gospel singer Mario Knight, George Shearing, Tholonius Monk, Anita O'Day, Cannonball Adderloy, and Buck Clayton.


Among the musioians with


music but yet draws on the best of the traditional and the least obscure of. the modern. His current band has sidemen of top calibre and the group produces perhaps the most exciting sound in British jazz. His first book was “ I Play as


Humph's is a forward-looking


alumni. If I had to express a prefer­


of the virtuoso style of the great Louis Armstrong—is capable of a wide range of tone of colour. There is recorded evidence of


playing has carried him through. His trumpet style—an extension


music. But the brilliance of Humph's


studied for two years in art school.


newspaper as a cartoonist, re­ maining for five years.


In 1949 he joined a national HIS OWN BAND


distinction of being chosen to record with the great Sidney Bechet—the virtuoso of the soprano saxophone—who lived for many years in Paris before his deatli. In 1955 tile band's recording


Humph has not stood still musically during his 15 years as


Police will he on


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ALTHOUGH last year’s Jazz Festival went


wi t h o u t any scenes of rowdyism, extra police from


the division will again be drafted into C li t h e r o e tomorrow. It has also been disclosed that the police will again have dogs ■with them. A police spokesman told


the “Advertiser and Times” “We can. only presume that something might happen. But obviously what we want is to let the teenagers e n j o y themselves without starting any trouble.” .


of "Bad Penny Blues" was the first British jazz record to break into the Top Twenty pops. As I have implied before.


came the leading traditional band in Britain with a high reputation in Europe gained through tours in Switzerland, Holland. Germany and Scandin­ avia. In 1949 his band had the


in 1948 after spending a year with George Webb's Dixie- landers. a group specialising in New Orleans jazz. The Lyttelton band soon be­


He formed his own first band


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