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Subject: [Leica] Sir John Dankworth - RIP
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:42:09 -0800
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On Feb 7, 2010, at 4:02 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> What sad news
> 
> Saw them at the Maltings years and years ago - absolutely brilliant.
> 
> I hear their daughter Jacqui is carrying on the Dankworth story.
> 
> Cleo was always one of the best British jazz singers, she made a really 
> fantastic album with John Williams (the guitarist, not the film theme 
> composer) it's still one of my favourite jazz records of all time.


I will look for it, thanks Douglas...

title?


Steve


> 
> I suppose all we've got left now in the way of really, really good, 
> contemporary Brit-jazz is Mike & Kate Westbrook.
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> On 07.02.2010 09:41, Charlie Chan wrote:
>> Yesterday, sadly one of the post war Jazz legends passed away. What a 
>> wonderful musician and composer - an icon of the 50s, 60s and 70s. I saw 
>> him last year at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival with his wife Cleo Laine.
>> 
>> http://topoxforddoc.zenfolio.com/p352195304
>> 
>> RIP
>> 
>> Charlie Chan
>> Cheltenham, UK
>> 
>> topoxforddoc at btinternet.com
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>> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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