Johnny hawksworth

What did this master play ?

Bass ? I always thought it was organ
I don't know why, but I always did.

Ieuke would know. Tell us now Gwen !

Jack

[van Otterloo]

Hi Jack,

Johnny Hawksworth's instrument is the double bass (he famously played in the Ted Heath band during the 50s & 60s), although he probably also plays electric bass.

As he's an arranger/composer, I'd imagine he knows his way around a piano pretty well, too.

He lives in Australia now and still writes library music.

[iueke]

here's Johnny..

Thank you very much

I love him soooooooooo much, his work anyways

I just scored an IM 21 Library: "Comedy and Big Beat" LP,
dead mint at an on-line store in France for 10 DOLLARS !

And just traded it (I have a copy in my collection or else I would NEVER get rid of it) with a Sonimage Library psych monster called TRAFIC POP for 5 Creasound and Neuilly Libraries ! I think 3 Cecil Leuter electronic and a couple of Nino Nardini electronic Lib's

Some of you guys are THE BEST.

THANKS AGAIN Gwen and van Otterloo

Jack

What a cool lookin' guy, damn man
JOHNNY YOU'RE THE BEST !

Gwen, I think you meant to say;

And hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer's Johnny !

Cheers Matt !

JD

[Lord Thames]

His real name's Denis, you know.

[Lord Thames]

This might interest you too: http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/soundson/lavender/

[Lord Thames]

And from the same website, another article with an interesting quote from Johnny/Denis about the sort of stuff he's doing these days!

http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/so...rary/index.htm

Thank you, Lord

What a champ you are and totally civil as well

Jack

[soundsville]

Can anyone tell me exactly where in Australia is Mr Hawksworth lives now?

[Lord Thames]

I'll see if I can find out.

By the way, something I forgot to mention was that he also writes under the name of Paul Kass. He's used this name on Chappell, de Wolfe and Parry tracks.

[LDJB]

Thats weird but it does explain why so many of the good Parry tracks are by P. Kass! Quite often though there will be a Hawksworth and a Kass composition on the same library - why bother to use different names??

[john stapleton]

tax?

[agenda]

Quote[/b] ]now well into his seventies and living in Australia, produced a sheet of paper containing about two dozen different styles of music and told me "Got to find music to fit all of these categories, all of the time!" Hard to imagine one so mature writing ‘techno’ pieces, but he does!

my favourite bit

[vibra]

Quote[/b] (Lord Thames @ 14 May 2003,22:34)]His real name's Denis, you know.

Aha!! So he changed his name in order to gain access to the elite world of the orchestral/library/jazz music Johnnys!

Think about it:

Harris, Gregory, Pearson, Scott, Keating, Dankworth..

In the days of British big band funk, undeniably the Johnnys ruled. Any vulture, any man can see how Denis would be tempted, and did ultimately become one of the great library Johnnys.