0098 Humphrey Lyttelton [Humphrey Lyttelton And His Band] FLAC 4(11.50)

Contributed by bluebird, who writes:-
Most people associate the Tempo label with those fabulously expensive early British Modern Jazz records - elusive and now mostly destined for collectors in Japan.
A copy of Tubby Hayes 'After Hours' fetched £1352 on ebay recently.
But Tempo had an earlier history of issuing Traditional Jazz and in fact it comprised a good half of their catalogue. Here is the very first ep on the Tempo label - EXA 1 featuring Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band recorded in March 1955. Sleeve notes are non-existent but there is a useful summary of the eps issued on the label. Not many 'modern' ones there are there?
Whilst the music has a certain period charm it is hard to believe that I once was an avid follower of this particular genre, spending many hours in sweaty, dark caverns, drinking warm beer wearing scratchy woolly jumpers and trying to identify the good looking girls in the gloom. The rhythm sections are pretty rough here or is it just the recording balance?
Dave Carey, who plays drums on 2 tracks, also ran a record shop in Streatham, London back in the 1970s and I seem to remember that it opened on only a few days per week, maybe even half days. The shop was the size of the average bathroom and it held a maximum of three people at any one time. Any other customers had to queue outside until someone left the shop.
It was the original Aladdin's Cave - there were no shelves or boxes to browse through. You had to know what you wanted then tell Dave who disappeared into some back room to then emerge clutching the treasure. His success rate was very high.  If you were a regular then he brought out a stack of lps for you to look at.
One for nostalgia lovers.
Ripped in FLAC from ep with front and back cover scans.

Humphrey Lyttelton - cornet
Harry Brown - trombone
Wally Fawkes - clarinet
George Webb - piano (02-04)
Pat Howes - piano (01)
Nevil Scrimshire - guitar
Lew Rawlings - bass
Jim Robinson - drums (01 02)
Dave Carey - drums (03 04)

01 When The Saints Go Marching In
02 Careless Love
03 Get Out Of Here
04 Sunday Morning

Label: Tempo ep EXA 1
Recorded: May 11 (01 02) December 02 (03 04) 1948
Lineage: EP>FLAC