TRUMPETER Digby Fairweather has paid tribute to jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton.
Lyttelton, presenter of Radio 4 comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, died aged 86.
He had hosted the "self-styled antidote to panel games" since 1972.
He was admitted to hospital earlier this week for surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm.
Best known as a musician, Lyttelton began playing the trumpet in 1936 and still toured with his band up until recently.
Digby Fairweather, who lives in Southend, said: "He was one of my principal inspirations for taking up the trumpet.
"I think people in a sense looked to Humphrey Lyttelton as their principal spokesman, role model and the man that people regarded as the voice of jazz in Britain."
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