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I was doing the gigs at the Metropole and also at Condon’s saloon when one day in 1963 I received an offer to go to England and work with Humphrey Lyttelton. I hadn’t known too much about Humphrey but I used to hear Pops talk about the cat in England who swings his ass off. I knew he had a band but that was about all I knew about him. I was very happy at the thought of playing with him and I packed my bags and headed for London. This tour was different than the one that I had made with my group before. I had Humph to tell me all about the different places we played and before long I was beginning to know all of the most interesting places in England.
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© 1986 Buck Clayton
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Clayton, B. (1986). Humphrey Lyttelton and my English tours. In: Buck Clayton’s Jazz World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08727-3_11
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