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Humph

Humphrey Lyttleton, musician, raconteur, all-round virtuoso, has died. He was a man of immense talent, not to mention his equally immense comic timing. He was one of two people who inspired me to pick up a trumpet (the other was Louis Armstrong). More importantly, he showed me the value of deadpan delivery, of straightfacedness in [...]