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Dame Cleo LaineDBE (born 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves.^[1] Laine is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer Sir John Dankworth.

Early life[edit]

Laine was born Clementine Dinah Bullock in Uxbridge, Middlesex,^[2] to unmarried parents:^[3] Alexander Sylvan Campbell, a black Jamaican who worked as a building labourer^[4] and regularly busked,^[5] and Minnie Bullock, a white English farmer's daughter from Swindon, Wiltshire. The family moved round constantly, but most of Laine's childhood was spent in Southall. She attended the Board School there on Featherstone Road (later known as Featherstone Primary School) and was sent by her mother for singing and dancing lessons at an early age. She went on to attend Mellow Lane Senior School in Hayes^[4] before going to work as an apprentice hairdresser, a hat-trimmer, a librarian, and in a pawnbroker's shop.^[3]

In 1946, under the name Clementina Dinah Campbell,^[6] Laine married George Langridge, a roof tiler, with whom she had a son, Stuart. The couple divorced in 1957.^[7][8] It was not until 1953, when she was 26 and applying for a passport for a forthcoming tour of Germany, that Laine found out her real birth name, due to her parents not being married at the time and her mother registering her under her own name.^[3]

Johnny Dankworth The Roulette Years Youtube

Career[edit]

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist, and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also served as her music director.

Laine did not take up singing professionally until her mid-twenties. Her early influences as a singer were Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland and Lena Horne.^{[citation needed]} She auditioned successfully, at the age of 24, for John Dankworth's small group, the Dankworth Seven, and later his orchestra, with which she performed until 1958. Dankworth and Laine married that year^[4] in secret at HampsteadRegister Office. The only witnesses were the couple's friend, pianist Ken Moule, and Dankworth's arranger, David Lindup. The couple had two children, who are both successful musicians in their own right: Alec who lives in the US, and Jacqui, a British singer who has released a number of albums.^[9]

She played the lead in a new play at London's Royal Court Theatre, home of the new wave of playwrights of the 1950s such as John Osborne and Harold Pinter. This led to other stage performances, such as the musical Valmouth in 1959, the play A Time to Laugh (with Robert Morley and Ruth Gordon) in 1962, Boots With Strawberry Jam (with John Neville) in 1968, and eventually to her role as Julie La Verne in Wendy Toye's production of Show Boat at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1971.^[10]Show Boat had its longest run to date in that London season with 910 performances staged.^[11]

During this period, she had two major recording successes. 'You'll Answer to Me' reached the British Top 10 while Laine was 'prima donna' in the 1961 Edinburgh Festival production of Kurt Weill's opera/ballet The Seven Deadly Sins, directed and choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan. In 1964 her Shakespeare and All that Jazz album with Dankworth was well received. Dankworth and Laine founded the Stables theatre in 1970 in what was the old stables block in the grounds of their home. It was an immediate success, with 47 concerts given in the first year.

Laine's international activities began in 1972, with a successful first tour of Australia. Shortly afterwards, her career in the United States was launched with a concert at New York's Lincoln Center, followed in 1973 by the first of many Carnegie Hall appearances. Coast-to-coast tours of the US and Canada soon followed, and with them a succession of record albums and television appearances, including The Muppet Show in 1977.^[12] This led, after several nominations, to her first Grammy award, in recognition of the live recording of her 1983 Carnegie concert. She has continued to tour periodically, including in Australia in 2005.^[13]

She has collaborated with James Galway, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Lloyd Webber and John Williams. Other important recordings during that time were duet albums with Ray Charles (Porgy and Bess) as well as Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, for which she received a Grammy Award nomination.

Laine's relationship with the musical theatre started in Britain and continued in the United States with starring performances in Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow (Michigan Opera). In 1980 she starred in Colette, a musical by Dankworth. The show began at the Stables theatre, Wavendon, in 1979 and transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London, in September 1980. In 1985 she originated the role of Princess Puffer in the Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for which she received a Tony nomination. In 1989 she received the Los Angeles critics' acclaim for her portrayal of the Witch in Sondheim's Into the Woods.

In May 1992, Laine appeared with Frank Sinatra for a week of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London.^[14]

By the late 1990s, Laine's concerts sold out across the globe, usually supported by Dankworth with his band, orchestra or smaller group. Her usual band included John Horler (piano), Alec Dankworth (bass), Allan Ganley (drums) and Mark Nightingale (trombone).

Laine's autobiography, Cleo, was published in September 1994 by Simon & Schuster. Her second book, You Can Sing If You Want To, was published by Victor Gollancz in October 1997. In 2000, she appeared as vocalist Gwen in the movie The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.

In the 1997 New Year's Honours list, Laine became a Dame Commander, and she was appointed Dame Cleo Laine DBE. In the 2006 New Year's Honours list, her husband was made a knight bachelor, becoming Sir John Dankworth. They were one of the few couples where both partners held their titles in their own right and the only couple in jazz to be thus recognised.

Dankworth died on 6 February 2010, hours before a planned concert at the Stables theatre in Wavendon to celebrate the venue's 40th anniversary. He had been ill for several months following a concert tour in the United States. Despite her grief, Laine performed at the 40th anniversary concert, along with the John Dankworth Big Band and several members of her family – only announcing his death at the end. Laine's decision to perform featured on newspaper front pages all over the world, including a full photograph of her on the front page of The Times.

A week after Dankworth's death, Laine stepped in for her late husband and appeared again in concert at Pinner in north west London. Laine continued to perform and give interviews in the months following Dankworth's death. She appeared as a headline act at the Music in the Garden festival at Wavendon in June and July 2010.

In March 2010, Laine and Dankworth's final musical collaboration was released on CD and for download – Jazz Matters. The recording featured the Dankworth Big Band playing new compositions written by Dankworth for the couple's performance at the 2007 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

Laine is famed for not only her interpretative style, but also her almost-four-octave range and vocal adaptability. As well as hitting deep soulful notes, Laine's scatting and top notes have become her signature. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a G above high C. Derek Jewel of the Sunday Times dubbed her 'quite simply the best singer in the world.'^[15]

Awards and honors[edit]

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1979
• Grammy Award nomination, Best Female Jazz Vocalist, Smilin' Through with Dudley Moore, 1983
• Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, 1986
• Lifetime Achievement Award, U.S. recording industry, 1991^[10]
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Worshipful Company of Musicians, 2002
• Gold Award, BBC Jazz Awards, 2008
• BASCA Gold Badge Award, 2016^[16]
• Honorary Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
• A street in Adelaide, South Australia was named after her.^[17]
• Honorary doctorates: Berklee College of Music, University of Cambridge, University of York, Open University, University of Luton

Johnny Dankworth Band

Discography[edit]

• She's the Tops! (MGM, 1957)
• Jazz Date with Tubby Hayes (Wing, 1961)
• All About Me (Fontana, 1962)
• Shakespeare and All That Jazz (Fontana, 1964)
• Woman to Woman (Fontana, 1966)
• Sir William Walton's Facade with Annie Ross (Fontana, 1967)
• If We Lived on the Top of a Mountain (Fontana, 1968)
• The Unbelievable (Fontana, 1968)
• Soliloquy (Fontana, 1968)
• Portrait (Philips, 1971)
• Feel the Warm (Columbia, 1972)
• An Evening with Cleo Laine & the John Dankworth Quartet (Philips, 1972)
• I Am a Song (RCA Victor, 1973)
• Day by Day (Stanyan, 1973)
• Cleo Laine Live!!! at Carnegie Hall (RCA Victor, 1974)
• A Beautiful Thing (RCA Victor, 1974)
• Sings Pierrot Lunaire (RCA Red Seal 1974)
• Cleo Close Up (RCA Victor, 1974)
• Spotlight On Cleo Laine (Philips, 1974)
• Easy Livin (Stanyan, 1975)
• Cleo Laine (MGM, 1975)
• Best Friends with John Williams (RCA Victor, 1976)
• Born on a Friday (RCA Victor, 1976)
• Porgy & Bess with Ray Charles (RCA Victor, 1976)
• At the Wavendon Festival (Black Lion, 1976)
• A Lover and His Lass with Johnny Dankworth (Esquire, 1976)
• Return to Carnegie (RCA Victor, 1977)
• Cleo's Greatest Show Hits (RCA Victor, 1978)
• Gonna Get Through (RCA Victor, 1978)
• Cleo Laine Sings Word Songs (RCA Victor 1978)
• Cleo Laine in Australia with Johnny Dankworth (World Record Club, 1978)
• Cleo's Choice (Marble Arch, 1974)
• Sometimes When We Touch with James Galway (RCA Red Seal 1980)
• Cleo Laine in Concert (RCA Victor 1980)
• One More Day (Sepia, 1981)
• Smilin' Through with Dudley Moore (CBS, 1982)
• Let the Music Take You with John Williams (CBS, 1983)
• That Old Feeling (K West, 1984)
• Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert (RCA Victor 1984)
• At the Carnegie: Cleo Laine in Concert (Sierra, 1986)
• The Unforgettable Cleo Laine (PRT, 1987)
• Cleo Sings Sondheim with Jonathan Tunick (RCA Victor, 1988)
• Woman to Woman (RCA Victor, 1989)
• Jazz (RCA Victor, 1991)
• Nothing without You with Mel Torme (Concord Jazz, 1992)
• Blue and Sentimental (RCA Victor, 1994)
• Solitude with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (RCA Victor, 1995)
• Quality Time (Sepia, 2002)
• Loesser Genius with Laurie Holloway (Qnote, 2003)

References[edit]

1. ^Pleasants, H. (1985) The Great American Popular Singers, Simon and Schuster
2. ^'Clementine Bullock' in Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records.
3. ^ ^abcMichael Church, 'Caribbean Cleo? The amazing Cleo Laine', Caribbean Beat, Issue 13, Spring 1995.
4. ^ ^abcInterview Jonathan Sale, 'Passed/Failed CLEO LAINE', The Independent, 10 June 1998.
5. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. ^'Clementina Campbell' in Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records.
7. ^Sunday Independent, 20 July 2008.
8. ^Cleo Laine, Cleo (Simon and Schuster, 1997, ISBN978-0684837628).
9. ^Maureen Paton, 'Cleo Laine's daughter puts her troubled childhood behind her: 'Dad's death has finally mellowed my mum', Daily Mail, 26 August 2011.
10. ^ ^abCleo Laine Biography, Quarternotes.
11. ^William Ruhlmann, AllMusic Review.
12. ^Garlen, Jennifer C.; Graham, Anissa M. (2009). Kermit Culture: Critical Perspectives on Jim Henson's Muppets. McFarland & Company. p. 218. ISBN078644259X.
13. ^Jessica Nicholas, 'Cleo Laine | Hamer Hall, March 18' (review), The Age, 21 March 2005.
14. ^Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe, 'Cleo Laine Takes Readers Through Her Full Life', Chicago Tribune, 13 June 1997.
15. ^Kernis, Mark, 'Two Strong Voices, Two Kinds of Songs'. Washington Post, October 6, 1978.
16. ^'BASCA Gold Badge Award winners revealed'. www.musicweek.com.
17. ^'Don Lane set to join strange lanes of Adelaide'. ABC News. 13 April 2010.

External links[edit]

• Cleo Laine on IMDb
• Cleo Laine at the Internet Broadway Database
• Cleo Laine at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Clip of TV performance on YouTube
• Radio interview with Nathan Morley from April 2010. Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
• John Fordham, Beethoven with a Bass Guitar? Fine! (interview with Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth), The Guardian, 15 November 2007

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinetist and writer of film scores.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also her music director.

• 1Biography
• 2Discography
• 3Soundtracks

Johnny Dankworth The Roulette Years Lyrics

Biography[edit]

Early years[edit]

Born in Woodford, Essex, he grew up, within a family of musicians, in Hollywood Way, Highams Park, a suburb of Chingford, and attended Selwyn Boys' (Junior) School in Highams Park and later Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow. He had violin and piano lessons before settling eventually on the clarinet at the age of 16, after hearing a record of the Benny Goodman Quartet. Soon afterwards, inspired by Johnny Hodges, he learned to play the alto saxophone.

He began his career on the British jazz scene after studying at London's Royal Academy of Music (where his jazz interests were frowned upon) and then national service in the Royal Air Force, during which he played alto sax and clarinet for RAF Music Services. He attended the Paris Jazz Festival in 1949 and played with Charlie Parker. Parker's comments about Dankworth led to the engagement of the young British jazz musician for a short tour of Sweden with the soprano-saxophonist Sidney Bechet. In 1949, Dankworth was voted Musician of the Year.

1950s[edit]

In 1950, Dankworth formed a small group, the Dankworth Seven, as a vehicle for his writing activities as well as a showcase for several young jazz players, including himself (alto sax), Jimmy Deuchar (trumpet), Eddie Harvey (trombone), Don Rendell (tenor sax), Bill Le Sage (piano), Eric Dawson (bass) and Tony Kinsey (drums). Vocalist and percussionist Frank Holder also sang and recorded with this ensemble. After three successful years, the group was wound up, although it re-formed for several reunions over the years.

Dankworth formed his big band in 1953. The band was soon earning plaudits from the critics and was invited to the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival, the first British group to receive an invite.^[6] The New York Times critic said of this appearance 'Mr. Dankworth's group ... showed the underlying merit that made big bands successful many years ago – the swinging drive, the harmonic colour and the support in depth for soloists that is possible when a disciplined, imaginatively directed band has worked together for a long time. This English group has a flowing, unforced, rhythmic drive that has virtually disappeared from American bands'. More succinctly, Gerard Lascelles of The Tatler, noted that 'The Dankworth orchestra blew magnificently'.^[7] The band performed at the Birdland jazz club in New York City, and shortly afterwards shared the stage with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for a number of concerts. Dankworth's band also performed at a jazz event at New York's Lewisohn stadium where Louis Armstrong joined them for a set. By now, Cleo Laine's singing was a regular feature of Dankworth's recordings and public appearances. After her divorce from George Langridge became final, in 1957, Dankworth married Cleo in secret at Hampstead Registry Office in 1958. The only witnesses at the wedding were Johnny's friend, pianist Ken Moule, and arranger David Lindup.

In 1959, Dankworth became chair of the Stars Campaign for Inter-Racial Friendship, set up to combat the fascist White Defence League.^[8]

1960s[edit]

In 1961, Dankworth's recording of Galt MacDermot's 'African Waltz' reached the UK Singles Chart, peaked at No. 9, and remained in the chart for 21 weeks.^[9] American altoist Cannonball Adderley sought and received Dankworth's permission to record the arrangement and had a minor hit in the US as a result. The piece was also covered by many other groups. In 1967 drummer Ronnie Stephenson's part on 'African Waltz' was adapted by the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Mitch Mitchell to form the basis of the drum part on 'Manic Depression'.^[10]

Dankworth's friendship with trumpeter Clark Terry led to Terry's being a featured soloist on Dankworth's 1964 album The Zodiac Variations, together with Bob Brookmeyer, Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, Lucky Thompson and other guests. Other Dankworth recordings during this period featured many other respected jazz names. Some were full-time members of the Dankworth band at one time or another, like Tony Coe, Mike Gibbs, Peter King, Dudley Moore, George Tyndale, Daryl Runswick, John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler, while others such as Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Tubby Hayes and Dick Morrissey were occasional participants.

Dankworth began a second career as a composer of film and television scores (often credited as 'Johnny Dankworth'). Among his best-known credits are the original themes for two British TV programmes, The Avengers (used from 1961 to 1964) and Tomorrow's World. He also wrote the scores for the films Darling (1965) and Modesty Blaise and Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (both 1966).^[11] He appeared in the film All Night Long (1962) alongside Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus – playing himself - and played on the theme to the satirical BBC show The Frost Report in 1966.

Dankworth was commissioned to write a piece for the 1967 Farnham Festival; and produced 'Tom Sawyer's Saturday'; written for full orchestra and narrator: 'a sort of 'Peter and the Wolf' which could be played by most reasonably competent youth orchestras'.^[12]

During this active period of recording, the Dankworth band nevertheless found time for frequent live appearances and radio shows, including tours in Britain and Europe with Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan and Gerry Mulligan, and concerts and radio performances with Lionel Hampton and Ella Fitzgerald.

1970s and 1980s[edit]

Dankworth's friendship with Duke Ellington continued until the latter's death in 1974. He recorded an album of symphonic arrangements of many Ellington tunes featuring another Ellingtonian trumpet soloist Barry Lee Hall. Dankworth also retained his Ellington links by performing with the Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Duke's son, Mercer Ellington. Dankworth recorded various symphonic albums with Dizzy Gillespie and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and others. Other jazz musicians with whom Dankworth performed include George Shearing, Toots Thielemans, Benny Goodman, Herbie Hancock, Hank Jones, Tadd Dameron, Slam Stewart and Oscar Peterson.

He always had an enthusiasm for jazz education, for many years running the Allmusic summer schools at the Stables in Wavendon near Milton Keynes, a theatre that Cleo and he created (January 1970) in their back garden. From 1984 to 1986, Dankworth was professor of music at Gresham College, London, giving free public lectures.

In 1982, Dankworth was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. ^[13]

Later work[edit]

He appeared with Craig David on Later with Jools Holland on BBC Two. He set up his own record label, Qnotes, in 2003, to reissue some of his old recordings as well as new ones. They include a number with Julian Lloyd Webber, Dudley Moore and members of his family.

Dankworth and Laine's two children are both jazz musicians: Alec Dankworth is a bassist who is also a member of his father's band, and Jacqui Dankworth is a singer.

Dankworth was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2006 New Year's Honours List.^[14] He and Dame Cleo Laine were one of the few married couples where both partners held titles in their own right.

Sir John remained an active composer into later life, and he wrote a jazz violin concerto for soloist Christian Garrick to play. This work had its world premiere at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall on 3 March 2008 in partnership with the Nottingham Youth Orchestra.^[15] Sir John himself took to the stage and challenged the young players to improvise with him.

In October 2009 at the end of a US tour with his wife, Sir John was taken ill. The couple cancelled a number of UK concert dates for the following month. Dankworth did return to the concert stage for just one solo at the London Jazz Festival at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in December 2009. He played his sax from a wheelchair. He also played in John & Cleo's Christmas Show from 17 to 20 December 2009 at 'the Stables' in Wavendon.

Death[edit]

John Dankworth died on 6 February 2010, aged 82,^[16] on the afternoon before a show celebrating the 40th anniversary of the foundation of his Stables theatre.^[17]

His funeral took place on 1 March 2010 at Milton KeynesCrematorium, followed by a memorial service held at the Stables the same day.

Discography[edit]

As leader[edit]

• 5 Steps to Dankworth (Verve, 1957)
• Itinerary of an Orchestra (Parlophone, 1960)
• Collaboration (Roulette, 1962)
• Jazz from Abroad (Roulette, 1963)
• What the Dickens (Fontana, 1963)
• The Zodiac Variations (Fontana, 1965)
• Modesty Blaise (20th Century Fox, 1966)
• John Dankworth and His Music (Fontana, 1970)
• Echoes of Harlem (Compendia, 1988)
• In a Mellow Tone: Tribute to Duke Ellington (Absolute, 2005)
• Spread a Little Happiness with Cleo Laine (Avid, 2006)
• About 42 Years Later with Danny Moss (Avid, 2007)
• Jady Aide with Alec Dankworth (Absolute, 2008)

As sideman or guest[edit]

With Alec Dankworth

• 1994 Nebuchadnezzar
• 1996 Rhythm Changes

With Cleo Laine

• 1976 Best Friends
• 1976 Born on a Friday
• 1978 Wordsongs
• 1989 Woman to Woman
• 2001 Live in Manhattan
• 2005 Once Upon a Time

With others

• 1969 Windmill Tilter, Kenny Wheeler
• 1975 Love Is a Five Letter Word, Jimmy Witherspoon
• 1987 Crossing Over the Bridge, London Symphony Orchestra
• 1989 Jazzin' at the Pops, Al Hirt
• 2011 It Happens Quietly, Jacqui Dankworth^[18]

Soundtracks[edit]

Film[edit]

• 1958 We Are the Lambeth Boys
• 1960 The Criminal
• 1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• 1963 The Servant
• 1965 Darling
• 1965 Return from the Ashes
• 1965 Sands of the Kalahari
• 1966 Morgan!
• 1966 Modesty Blaise
• 1966 The Idol
• 1967 Accident
• 1967 The Last Safari (French 'Le Dernier safari')
• 1967 Fathom
• 1968 Salt and Pepper
• 1968 The Other People
• 1968 The Magus
• 1970 The Last Grenade
• 1970 Perfect Friday
• 1971 10 Rillington Place
• 1975 The Kingfisher Caper
• 2000 Gangster No. 1
• 2001 Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)

Television and radio[edit]

• 1959 The Voodoo Factor
• 1961 Survival
• 1961 The Avengers
• 1964 Rediffusion London startup theme and callsign.^[19]
• 1964 'Beefeaters'^[20]
• 1965 Tomorrow's World
• 1979 Telford's Change
• 1983 Today (BBC Radio 4)^[21]
• 1993 Money for Nothing (by Mike Ockrent)
• 2010 ZingZillas

References[edit]

1. ^Obituary, The Times, 8 February 2010
2. ^John Fordham (7 February 2010). 'Sir John Dankworth obituary'. The Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
3. ^'Sir John Dankworth'. The Telegraph. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
4. ^Steve Voce (9 February 2010). 'Sir John Dankworth: Saxophonist who pioneered modern jazz in Britain and became a patron of music education'. The Independent. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
5. ^Obituary, Los Angeles Times, 8 February 2010
6. ^Dankworth Plans Trip to Newport, The Tatler, May 6, 1959
7. ^Jazz at Two Festivals, The Tatler, September 2, 1959
8. ^'John Dankworth vs White Defence League'. 11 November 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
9. ^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 140. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
10. ^Doerschuk, Andy. 'Mitch Mitchell: The Hendrix Years'. Drum!. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
11. ^John Dankworth on IMDb
12. ^Programme Notes: Essex Youth Orchestra Charity concert in the Royal Festival Hall, 28 May 1972
13. ^'John Dankworth'. Quarternotes.com. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
14. ^'No. 57855'. The London Gazette (1st supplement). 31 December 2005. pp. 1–1.
15. ^[1]Archived 2 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
16. ^Stephen Graham, Jazz breaking news: Giant of British Jazz Sir John Dankworth Dies at 82, Jazzwise, 6 February 2010.
17. ^'Jazz star Johnny Dankworth dies'. BBC News. 7 February 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
18. ^'John Dankworth | Credits'. AllMusic. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
19. ^'Rediffusion'. Transdiffusion.org. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
20. ^'radiorewind.co.uk'. Radiorewind.co.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
21. ^'Audio Identities Radio news themes'. Imagedissectors.com. Retrieved 22 September 2014.

External links[edit]

• John Dankworth discography at Discogs
• John Dankworth on IMDb
• Portraits of Sir John Dankworth at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Portraits of Sir John Philip William ('Johnny') Dankworth at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• John Dankworth on YouTube in performance with Julian Lloyd Webber
• Beethoven with a Bass Guitar? Fine!, John Fordham interviews Cleo Laine and John Dankworth in The Guardian, 15 November 2007

Johnny Dankworth And Cleo Laine