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Derek Wadsworth was born on 5 February, 1939 in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England, is a British musical artist (1939–2008). Discover Derek Wadsworth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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69 years old |
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Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England |
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3 December, 2008 |
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Derek Wadsworth Net Worth
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Derek Wadsworth (5 February 1939 – 3 December 2008) was an English jazz musician, composer and arranger.
Wadsworth was born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire on 5 February 1939.
His first instrument was the cornet and he started playing the trombone at the age of eleven.
Wadsworth played in bands in Huddersfield in the late 1950s.
He was based in London from the early 1960s and played in several bands.
He was musical director for singer Dusty Springfield in the mid-1960s, and for a Diana Ross world tour, and held the same position in the musical Hair for five years from 1968.
He first arranged music in 1970, for Spring and Port Wine.
He also had lengthy periods in the 1970s with Graham Collier and John Dankworth.
Wadsworth founded the Musicians Union's Rock Workshop and lectured there in the latter part of the decade.
He also led his own sextet.
Wadsworth toured the United States with Maynard Ferguson in 1972, as well as recording with the bandleader.
In 1975 he arranged for Alfie Darling and in the following year he composed and arranged for the 24-part television drama Space: 1999 (including this second series's newly-composed main theme tune) and worked on the film ''The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Wadsworth was also busy as a session musician, including for recordings by Tony Bennett, George Harrison, Tom Jones and Dionne Warwick.
Years later, he commented: "We flitted from one studio to the next, never quite knowing what we had recorded [...] Now that there's money available for people who played on records of yesteryear we're all busy scrabbling about trying to find out who did what."
For some projects, Wadsworth played electronic keyboards and was credited as Daniel Caine.
By the 1980s he was concentrating on film composing and arranging, but also led the band Blind Alley.
He was involved in the 1983 film Britannia Hospital.
His wife, Betty, died in 1987 and he is survived by his partner, Patsy Halliday, and a son and a daughter from his marriage.
In the same decade he also conducted the Prague Symphony Orchestra for recordings and was involved in the documentary film Wild Man Blues.
In the 2000s, his playing included a quintet that he co-led with Ray Warleigh.
Wadsworth wrote around two hundred pieces of music for television advertisements.
He died suddenly on 3 December 2008.