Daryl Runswick (born 12 October 1946) is a classically trained English composer, arranger, jazz musician, producer and educationalist.

Career

Runswick was born in

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, and educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and

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. He started playing bass with leading UK jazz musicians in the mid-1960s, including

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and

John Dankworth Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE (20 September 1927 – 6 February 2010), also known as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist, clarinettist and writer of film scores. With his wife, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, he ...

, with whom he would tour and compose for extensively for some 12 years. In 1969, Runswick was a member of the Lionel Grigson- Pete Burden Quintet, and in 1972 played and recorded with the Ian Hamer Septet, a band in which Runswick coincided with

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, among others, and throughout the 1970s he was also a member of the London Jazz Four. As a

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, Runswick later branched out into more popular music, including appearing on the first

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recording and working with

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. Runswick has also worked with the

London Sinfonietta The London Sinfonietta is an English contemporary chamber music, chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble has headquarters at Kings Place and is Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. Since its inaugural concert ...

, Nash Ensemble and The King's Singers,

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music. Born in Montb ...

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Ja ...

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and

Sarah Vaughan Sarah Lois Vaughan (, March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "List of nicknames of jazz musicians, The Divine One", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, ...

Cleo Laine Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Hitching; 28 October 1927) is an English singer and actress known for her scat singing. She is the widow of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec D ...

has recorded several of his compositions.Chilton, John (2004)
''Who's Who of British Jazz''
Continuum International Publishing Group. , . From 1983 to 1998, Runswick was the tenor singer and resident composer in the avant-garde electronic vocal group Electric Phoenix, performing worldwide and working with, among others, composers

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, Pierre Boulez,

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and

Henri Pousseur Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (; 23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist. Biography Pousseur was born in Malmedy and studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 19 ...

. From 1995 to 2005, Runswick was Head of Composition Faculty at

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(notable students include Angie Atmadjaja, Dai Fujikura, Harris Kittos, Nikos Veliotis and Reynaldo Young). As a composer, Runswick has written film and TV scores, including the films ''Gullsandur'' (''Golden Sands'') (1985) and '' No Surrender'' (1985), and the TV series '' Brond'' (1987) with

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, '' The Advocates'' (1991–92) and ''

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'' (1993). His major concert work, ''Maybe I Can Have an Everlasting Love'', for voice, computer-generated electronics and orchestra, premiered in 2005 at Blackheath Halls, London. His works have also been conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore and played by the

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, among other performers. As a record producer, Runswick has produced recordings by

Keith Tippett Keith Graham Tippetts (25 August 1947 – 14 June 2020), known professionally as Keith Tippett, was a British jazz pianist and composer. According to AllMusic, Tippett's career "...spanned jazz-rock, progressive rock, improvised and contemporar ...

. Runswick is the author of a standard textbook ''Rock, Jazz and Pop Arranging''.

Discography

* ''The Johnstons'' (1968) * ''Atlantic Bridge'' (1970) * ''

That's Just the Way I Want to Be ''That's Just the Way I Want to Be'' is a 1970 album by Blossom Dearie. For the first time, the focus is on Dearie as a songwriter with her co-writing nine of the album's 12 tracks. She took the opportunity to pay tribute to some of her contemp ...

'' (1970) [] * ''Rites and Rituals'' (1970) [] * ''Rock Workshop'' (1971) [] * ''The Very Last Time'' (1971) [] * ''From the Beggar's Mantle'' (1971) [] * ''Live at the ICA'' (1972) [] * ''Acropolis'' (1972) [] (released 2005) * ''Secret Asylum'' (1973) [] * ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (1976) [] * ''Alan Branscombe & Tony Coe'' (1977) * ''In Hoagland'' – Georgie Fame (1981) [] * "Secret Ceremony (Theme From Brond)" / "Wiping A Tear From The All Seeing Eye", 7" & 12" single versions (1987) [Scala Featuring & Cocteau * ''My Family and Other Animals (TV series), My Family and Other Animals'' (1987)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Runswick, Daryl 1946 births Living people 20th-century British jazz composers 20th-century English classical composers 20th-century English male musicians 21st-century British double-bassists 21st-century English classical composers 21st-century English male musicians 21st-century jazz composers Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge British jazz double-bassists British male double-bassists British male jazz composers English jazz composers English male classical composers English male composers People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys