Topic: John Dankworth
I've been listening to a superb Decca release from 1958 - Our Kind Of Jazz - by the Ted Heath Orchestra. You only have to look at the personnel of the band all those years ago and it's like reading a Who ...
Dame Cleo Laine , Lady Dankworth , DBE (born 28 October 1927) is a jazz singer and an actress , noted for her scat singing and vocal range. Laine is the widow of jazz composer Sir John Dankworth .Laine was born as Clementina Dinah Campbell ...
John Dankworth was born in London in 1927, and by the time he was ten wanted to play the clarinet like his hero Benny Goodman. By the early 1960s jazz was slowly starting to move away from the melodic to the intolerable ...
By the mid 1960s jazz was moving away from the melodic to the intolerable. In the early 1960s a slightly older generation of jazz musicians were doing something similar, but even more melodic; most notably the English composer and alto sax player ...
British jazz conductor, bandleader and saxophonist Sir John Dankworth dies at 82 Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died.Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine who married Dankworth in 1958 after meeting during an audition for a ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Saxophonist Sir John Dankworth, one of the leading figures in British jazz for more than half a century, has died, his agent said Sunday.His wife, the singer Cleo Laine, announced the death from the stage during a concert to ...
Among the New Year's honours, knighthoods went to Tom Jones, the singer; John Dankworth, the jazz musician; Arnold Wesker, the playwright; and Lord Coe, the Olympics organiser; damehoods went to Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer; Liz Forgan, of the Heritage Lottery ...
When the British pop-jazz singer Cleo Laine made her American debut in 1972, everything about her caught the eye or ear. Her earthy contralto could leap octaves, or tootle in unison with the reed playing of John Dankworth, her husband and arranger ...
