Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also her music director. Dankworth was born in Walthamstow, then in the County Borough of West Ham, in 1927. He grew up, within a family of musicians, in Hollywood Way, Highams Park, a... more
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