John Dankworth

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1927 age 0

   Born

2. 1963 age 36

   CreditThe Servantcomposer

3. 1965 age 38

   CreditDarlingcomposer

4. 2010 age 82

   Died

• DBDirk Bogarde2 titles
• JCJulie Christie1 title
• DSDouglas Slocombe1 title
• PMPatrick Magee1 title
• VDVernon Dobtcheff1 title
• RVRichard Vernon1 title
• JCJames Cossins1 title
• JFJames Fox1 title
• PBPeter Bayliss1 title
• FRFrederic Raphael1 title

• It is not governed by the senseless world of current style that pervades and pollutes popular music, nor is it part of an established hierarchy, so that it is cloistered and protected.

  John Dankworth, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Jazz today can be spiritual, cerebral, motivating or moving. It can evoke tension, relaxation, laughter, tears. Surely jazz is truly the music of the era, combining stature, dignity and emotion with the highest musical ideals.

  John Dankworth, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Forget the word youth – this is one of the best bands you'll ever hear.

  John Dankworth, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The hardest thing to do is to swing quietly, with control and restraint. Lots of bands swing loudly. I refuse to let my band play loudly in order to try to swing when it isn’t swinging softly. I think that the best jazz in the long run is the jazz that is controlled and will swing on its own terms.

  John Dankworth, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I have never looked like being in that incredible virtuoso class like, say, Stan Getz. I think people made a mistake and put me in that embryonic class when I was very young and thought that I was going to branch out to be a big instrumentalist in some way or another. But I always find that I very, very seldom get anywhere near what I consider a satisfactory standard. I would much rather be judged for my writing because writing is a thing that you can have second thoughts about and, if it isn’t right, you can’t blame somebody else but yourself.

  John Dankworth, CC BY-SA 4.0