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The Daniel Caine orchestra is a group of musicians who were formed and conducted by Daniel Caine (real name Derek Wadsworth) to perform popular film and tv show theme music.
Derek Wadsworth was among the most gifted and versatile composers for film and television of his generation. He was also a superb jazz trombonist.
In a career spanning half a century Wadsworth played, arranged or conducted for virtually every big name in popular music. He was particularly admired for his imaginative combination of electronic and "live" instruments, which imparted a characteristic warmth to his scores.
Derek Wadsworth was born at Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, on February 5 1939, and began playing the trombone at the age of 11. As a teenager he was a member of the celebrated Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, and at 19 he joined Keith Smith's Jazz Cardinals in Huddersfield.
His introduction to film music was as an arranger, beginning in 1970 with Spring and Port Wine. This was followed by Alfie Darling (1975), starring Alan Price, and the television series Space:1999 (1976), in which Wadsworth attempted to predict what the music of the future might sound like. This series later acquired the status of a cult classic, making the composer something of a celebrity among science fiction fans.
Among his many film credits are The Man Who Fell To Earth (directed by Nicholas Roeg, 1976), Britannia Hospital (Lindsay Anderson, 1983) and the Woody Allen documentary Wild Man Blues (1997).
At the same time Wadsworth was busy working not only as a composer, arranger and conductor, but also as an instrumentalist. He played the trombone with the bands of Georgie Fame and Maynard Ferguson as well as on innumerable recording sessions. Among those with whom he recorded as a player were George Harrison, Diana Ross, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick and Tony Bennett. "We flitted from one studio to the next, never quite knowing what we had recorded," he recalled. "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."
He arranged and conducted for Judy Garland, Kate Bush, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Randy Crawford and Cat Stevens, and had a particularly close working relationship with Alan Price, for whom he arranged the album Between Today And Yesterday (1974). This contained The Jarrow Song, a brilliant marriage of pop and brass-band idioms.
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