Johnnie Scott

From Wikipedia:

Patrick John O’Hara Scott (born 1930) (also credited as John Scott, Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott), is an English composer, conductor, and jazz musician. He began his career as a pop and jazz arranger and session musician, before becoming well-known for his film and television scores, including collaborations with directors such as Richard Donner, Mike Hodges, Hugh Hudson, Norman Jewison, Irvin Kershner, Ilaiyaraaja, and Norman J. Warren. He is also a composer of contemporary classical music.

Early life

Scott was born in Bristol, England. His father, a musician in the Bristol Police Band, gave him his first music lessons. At the age of 14, he enrolled in the British Army (in the Royal Artillery Band, Woolwich) as a boy musician to continue his musical studies of the clarinet, harp and saxophone.

Career

Beginning in the 1960s, Scott toured with Ted Heath’s big band, among others. He was hired by EMI to arrange and conduct some of its most popular artists and, during this time, worked with Beatles producer George Martin, playing flute in the band’s 1965 recording “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away“. Scott also recorded such artists as Tom Jones, Cilla Black, and The Hollies. As a musician, he played with the Julian Bream Consort, John Dankworth, Cleo Laine, Yehudi Menuhin, Nelson Riddle and Ravi Shankar.

Credited as Johnny Scott, and playing flute, he led a jazz quintet, quartet and trio during the 1960s: his three part Study for Jazz Quintet was included on the 1962 compilation album Jazz Tête-à-Tête recorded by Denis Preston. He played for Henry Mancini and was principal saxophonist in John Barry’s soundtrack to the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). For London Swings (1966), he assembled an impressive line-up of British jazz musicians, including Eddie Blair, Alan Branscombe, Leon Calvert, Duncan Lamont, Don Lusher, Ronnie Ross and others. For the quintet record Communication (1967) the lineup includes Scott himself on flute, Duncan Lamont (saxophone), David Snell (harp), Arthur Watts (bass) and Barry Morgan (drums).

Film and television music

Since the 1960s, Scott has composed for more than 100 film and television productions. Some of Scott’s most praised and recognised scores are Antony and Cleopatra (1972), England Made Me (1973), North Dallas Forty (1979), The Final Countdown (1980), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), The Shooting Party (1985) and Lionheart (1990 film).

His TV work includes the themes to the BBC current affairs programmes Nationwide and Midweek, incidental music for the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme, and documentaries by French explorer Jacques Cousteau. He also composed the instrumental piece “Gathering Crowds” for a stock music library. While the opening bars of the piece were used briefly in 1976 by ABC for its nightly national news program, the piece would later become iconic in the US for its use as the closing theme for the long-running syndicated Major League Baseball highlights show This Week in Baseball.

Contemporary classical music

Scott is also active as a classical composer (having written a symphony, a ballet, four string quartets and a guitar concerto) and as a conductor. Orchestras that he has conducted include the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Opera Orchestra, the Lubliana Radio Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic.

In 2006–2008, Scott served as the artistic director of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra.

On 16 October 2013 Scott was presented with a BASCA Gold Badge Award in recognition of his contribution to music. […]

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