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Family
And May He Rest In Peace
Sir
John Dankworth
September 20th 1927 ~ February 6th 2010
English jazz icon, composer, saxophonist, clarinetist and
musical arranger, Johnny Dankworth, has sadly died in King Edward VII
Hospital, London after being ill for several months. At the age of 83,
he leaves behind a close and loving family including his wife jazz singer
Cleo Laine, their son jazz bassist, Alec and their daughter, jazz singer
Jacqui.

Johnny
Dankworth was born in Woodford, Essex,
playing piano and violin from an early age, but inspired by Johnny Hodges,
he took up the alto saxophone. After winning a place at the Royal Academy
of Music aged 17, and following a short stint in the Army, he was voted
British Musician of the Year in 1949. That same year he attended the
Paris Jazz Festival, where he played with the legendary Charlie Parker.
Johnny and future his wife Cleo met in 1950, while he was auditioning
for singers with his band, the Dankworth Seven. The band performed at
the Birdland jazz club in New York and shortly afterwards shared the
stage with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for a number of concerts. They
also performed at a jazz event at New Yorks 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
and they married in 1958. In the 1960s, he scored such films as Saturday
Night and Sunday Morning, The Servant and Modesty Blaise and wrote the
theme tunes for The Avengers and Tomorrow's World. 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, John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler,
while others such as Dave Holland, John McLaughlin, Tubby Hayes and
Dick Morrissey were occasional participants. 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. He and wife
Cleo founded their charity, the Wavendon Allmusic Plan, in 1969. In
the 70s and 80s, Johnny was appointed CBE in 1974, he continued his
friendship with Duke Ellington until the Dukes death in 1974, after
which he recorded an album of symphonic arrangements of many Ellington
tunes featuring another Ellingtonian trumpeter Barry Lee Hall. He also
performed with the Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Dukes
son, Mercer Ellington. In this period Johnny recorded various symphonic
albums with Dizzy Gillespie and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
to mention a few. Other jazz musicians with whom he performed include
George Shearing, Toots Thielemans, Benny Goodman, Herbie Hancock, Hank
Jones, Tadd Dameron, Slam Stewart, and Oscar Peterson. In 1985 he founded
the London Symphony Orchestra Summer Pops In 1993 he formed the Dankworth
Generation Band, with his son Alec. Johnny was also a fellow of the
Royal Academy of Music and received the Freedom of the City of London
in 1994. He always had an enthusiasm for jazz education, for many years
running the Allmusic summer schools at The Stables in Wavendon, a theatre
created by him and his wife, Cleo, in their back garden. Johnny was
knighted in 2006 for services to music and 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 premier in Nottingham
on 1 March 2008 in partnership with the Nottingham Youth Orchestra.
In October last year Sir John fell ill at the end of a US tour with
his wife, Cleo Layne. The couple cancelled a number of UK concert dates
for the following month, but Sir John did return to the concert stage
at the London Jazz Festival, playing his saxophone from his wheelchair
at the Royal Festival Hall and also played at John & Cleo's Christmas
Show on the 17 December at The Stables. On the day of Sir John's death
a pre-arranged show at The Stables bravely went ahaed. The concert which
featured performances from Dame Cleo and the couple's jazz musician
children Alec and Jacqui, along with celebrities Paul O'Grady, Prunella
Scales, Maureen Lipman, Timothy West and Victoria Wood turned the concert
into a celebration of Sir John's life. Dame Cleo did not brake the sorrowful
news to the 400 strong audience until the finale.
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