back to search results

Johnny Dankworth And His Wife Cleo Laine In Norfolk For Fakenham Festival

1971 , Norwich (Norfolk)

Cat no. 208117

No video

There’s no web video for this work.

Please do get in contact to discuss other ways you could view this work.

Anglia TV news item; interview with husband and wife, jazz composer Johnny Dankworth and jazz singer Cleo Laine, at Norwich's Chapelfield Gardens.

The camera zooms out to reveal the bandstand in Chapelfield Gardens in Norwich. Pans across the gardens to show Anglia TV presenter walking with jazz composer Johnny Dankworth and his wife the jazz singer Cleo Laine. They sit on a bench for the interview. Both Johnny and Cleo claim that small local festivals are extremely important and they think that artists should support the smaller festivals. Cleo explains that they moved from London to Buckinghamshire as she was pregnant. The interviewer asks whether festivals conflict with jazz, to which Cleo responds that festivals are expanding to a broader picture and so any music can be included. Cleo talks about the vast amount of music fields she has been involved in. Johnny says how he writes jazz music more than he plays now, but he wants to play more than he has time for. Interviewer asks them if they feel they have been successful in trying to bridge classical music and jazz, to which Johnny replies that everyone wants to know more about different sorts of music and so it is important pioneer work for the future. He says that if you are a musician you never have a break from music and you have to be prepared to live it out your whole life. He ends the interview by talking about his schedule and rehearsals for the concert.

Keywords

Composers; Jazz; Musicians; Performers; Personalities; Singers.

Background Information

Fakenham Festival of Music and the Arts, a ten-day festival offering all sorts of music and cultural events was held in Fakenham every two years from 1963 until the early 1990s.

Manifestations

Johnny Dankworth And His Wife Cleo Laine In Norfolk For Fakenham Festival

  • Barcode
    INV359358
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    DV digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:04:41
    Modification Date
    10/05/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    709531
  • Barcode
    INV318181
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    master digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:04:41
    Modification Date
    29/09/2010
    Parts
    Reference
    692935
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV176041
    Canonical Identifier
    968/71
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Details
    Carrier Type
    16mm film
    Colour Type
    colour
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:04:42
    Has Image
    Y
    Has Sound
    Y
    Identifier
    Image Polarity
    pos
    Modification Date
    18/04/2007
    Parts
    Reference
    585248
    Sound
    sound
    Sound System
    mag stripe

Copyright restrictions apply.

Please see our terms of use. Films on this website are provided for personal viewing. Should you wish to use the films in any other way please contact eafa@uea.ac.uk

terms of use
The data for this page was generated on 05/10/2024 23:16:49+00:00. Click to regenerate this page .