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Johnny Dankworth: 'What the Dickens!'

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Marc Myers
Jun 21, 2023
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One of Britain's finest jazz musicians, arrangers and composers was Johnny Dankworth. The alto saxophonist and big band leader was best known here as the husband of singer Cleo Laine. The pair married in 1958 and made the rounds of TV variety shows for years. But Dankworth was a giant in his own right and one of the U.K.'s most inventive arranger-compos…

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