Johnny Dankworth (later Sir John Dankworth CBE), was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist. Born in Woodford, Essex on the 20th September 1927 , he grew up, within a family of musicians, in Highams Park, a suburb of Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest and attended 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.

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