Humphrey Lyttelton discusses his musical style

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Humphrey Lyttelton discusses his busy schedule

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Humphrey Lyttelton discusses his career path

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Q: “You seem to have ‘fallen into’ everything, because it surely, right back to the beginning was not your family’s intention that you become a jazz musician…”

A: Humphrey Lyttleton: “No, no. I mean, my education was it's like...”

Interviewer: “It's what you turn on all that?”

Humphrey Lyttleton: “It's like a conveyor belt. You know, you're supposed to come off at the end of it and go into ...”

Interviewer: “Go into the city now.”

Humphrey Lyttleton: “Okay, the city or the army, or you know, something respectable like that, but the thing that saved me from all that was the war, six years in the army. Because when I came, I was ... I think my father who was a schoolmaster wanted ... his idea, it would be nice if I became a schoolmaster and follow, like all fathers, wanted me to do the same thing.”