Jacqui Dankworth

Jacqueline " Jacqui " Dankworth ( born February 5, 1963 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England) is a British singer (mainly in the jazz field ).

Life and work

Jacqui Dankworth is the daughter of singer Cleo Laine and John Dankworth saxophonist and composer; Early examples from the extensive record collection of her parents were Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Al Jarreau, Billie Holiday, but also singers like Carole King or Laura Nyro and singers like James Taylor.

Jacqui Dankworth began her professional career as an actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the Theatre Group of John Dexter; They then moved on to musicals and eventually began a career as a singer.

First, she went with her brother Alec Dankworth on tour and performed in Hawaii, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Jacqui Dankworth then played in Stravinsky's " " The Soldier's Tale " at the Purcell Room in London and worked with the jazz composer and saxophonist Tim Garland on a cycle of songs - " Songs Of Love And Liberty ", which was also Norma Winstone and Christine Tobin participated. In early 1998, she went with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on tour. During this time, an album of jazz arrangements of poems by AE Housman with the New Perspectives Ensemble was formed.

In 1999, she appeared with arrangements of George Gershwin classics with the BBC Big Band in London and Birmingham. She then worked with the band " Field of Blue", an acoustic band with which she played mostly original compositions. With Field of Blue, she toured in the UK and Europe; also they took with the band on two albums, Field of Bue (1999) and Still, that was published in 2000.

With pianist James Pearson In July 2000 they recorded the album For All We Know; In addition, she participated in a tribute album and concert for the singer Nick Drake. She also worked with the vocal group The Passion, with singers Liane Carroll and Sara Colman ( One Good Reason, 2002).

2003 established the crossover album As the Sun Shines Down on Me on the record label Candid Records with a blend of contemporary song material, among others, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder as well as jazz standards such as " You Must Believe in Spring" or Duke Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood. It was theirs jazz clubs and theaters in the UK and Ireland; In addition, she worked as a guest on Courtney Pines album '' Devotion '' with (2003) and appeared with him at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the London Jazz Festival.

Then she made ​​a guest appearance in the film '' '' Shoreditch with the classic Billie Holiday number '' My Man '' as well as with the standard '' Body and Soul ''. In 2004, she recorded the album Detour Ahead; In 2007 she opened the Nuremberg Stimmenfang Festival. In 2008 she joined three nights with new material in Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho.

Dankworth also appeared as a guest soloist on recordings by Michael Garrick ( For Love Of Duke ... and Ronnie ..., 1995 /96), Gerard Presencer, George Melly ( The Ultimate Melly, 2005) with.

The authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton, 2006 mused about why Jacqui Dankworth is not known and especially highlight their achievements on the album Detour Ahead forth that they provided in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings with the highest grade; Album - among others with Paul Simon's " Train in the Distance" - establishing them in the first series of the British jazz singers.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Five Houseman Settings ( Spotlite, 1996)
  • Field of Blue ( 1999)
  • Still ( Black Box Records, 2000)
  • For All We Know ( Black Box, 2001) with James Pearson
  • As the Sun Shines Down on Me ( Candid, 2002) with Alec and John Dankworth
  • Detour Ahead ( Candid, 2004) with Alec and John Dankworth
  • It Happens Quietly (2011) with Karen Sharp, Tim Garland, Jimmy Hastings

Swell

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, Penguin, London, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6. .
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