Johnny Dankworth: Let's Slip Away - Cleo Laine

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Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE 1927 –2010 known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist, and writer of many film scores and television theme music. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he was a music educator and also served as her music director.
On this recording Cleo Laine sings 'Let's Slip Away' from the gritty 1960's film 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' based on the book by Alan Sillitoe;
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British Kitchen sink drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe, who also wrote the screenplay adaptation. The film is about a young machinist, Arthur, who spends his weekends drinking and partying, all the while having an affair with a married woman.
The film is one of a series of "kitchen sink drama" films made in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as part of the British New Wave of filmmaking, from directors such as Reisz, Jack Clayton, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger and Tony Richardson and adapted from the works of writers such as Sillitoe, John Braine and John Osborne. A common trope in these films was the working-class "angry young man" character (in this case, the character of Arthur), who rebels against the oppressive system of his elders.
In 1999, the British Film Institute named Saturday Night and Sunday Morning the 14th greatest British film of all time on their Top 100 British films list.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award.
It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham Playhouse, with Ian McKellen playing one of his first leading roles.
Sillitoe later wrote three further parts to the Seatons' story, Key to the Door (1961), The Open Door (1989) and Birthday (2001).

Whatever you might think about these gritty British dramas from the 1960's there was always merit in the cinematography, each shot beautifully taken. The impression given by this sort of British drama is powerful and made more so by the addition of Johnny Dankworth's unique music.

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