John Scott also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

Composer

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 and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner

Richard Donner

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, Norman J. Warren

Norman J. Warren

Norman John Warren, born 25 June 1942 in London, is a British film director best known for such 1970s horror films as Satan’s Slave , Prey and Terror...

, Mike Hodges

Mike Hodges

Mike Hodges is an English screenwriter, film director, playwright and novelist. His films as writer/director include Get Carter, Pulp, The Terminal Man and Black Rainbow; as director his films include Flash Gordon, Croupier and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead...

, Mark Damon

Mark Damon

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, Hugh Hudson

Hugh Hudson

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, Norman Jewison

Norman Jewison

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, Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner

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, Daniel Petrie

Daniel Petrie

Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian television and movie director.Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945...

, Roger Spottiswoode

Roger Spottiswoode

Roger Spottiswoode is a Canadian-born film director and writer, who began his career as an editor in the 1970s. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring...

 and Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...

, among others.

Scott was born in Bishopston, Bristol

Bishopston, Bristol

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, England, in 1930. His father was a musician in the Bristol Police Band, who gave Scott his first music lessons.

At age 14, he enrolled in the army as a Boy Musician in order to continue his musical studies of the clarinet

Clarinet

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, harp

Harp

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, and saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

. Following this, he toured with some of the top British bands of the era. He was hired by EMI to arrange and conduct some of EMI's foremost artists and, during that time, worked with Beatles producer George Martin

George Martin

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 (playing flutes

Flute

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 on the Beatles' song "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" is a song by The Beatles. It was written and sung by John Lennon and released on the album Help! in August 1965.-Composition and recording:...

" in 1965 - making him the first outside musician to perform on one of their songs) and recorded such artists as Tom Jones

Tom Jones (singer)

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, Cilla Black

Cilla Black

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, and The Hollies

The Hollies

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. As a musician, he played with The Julian Bream Consort, Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin

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, Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

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, Nelson Riddle

Nelson Riddle

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, John Dankworth

John Dankworth

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 and Cleo Laine

Cleo Laine

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.

Credited as Johnny Scott, playing flute

Flute

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, he led a jazz

Jazz

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 quintet, quartet and trio during the 1960s. He played for Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

 and was principal saxophonist on John Barry's Goldfinger soundtrack

Goldfinger (soundtrack)

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. This exposure to film music whetted his appetite for composing music for films. His first score was in 1965 for the film, A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror

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.

Since then, Scott has scored over one hundred film and television projects. His film score

Film score

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s include the above-mentioned A Study in Terror (1965), Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

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(1967) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). More recently, his TV work has included incidental music for the ITV

ITV

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 series Rosemary and Thyme. Of note are his many scores for films and documentaries by explorer Jacques Cousteau.

He is also active as a classical composer (he has written a symphony, a ballet, 4 string quartets, a guitar concerto and is currently working on an opera) and as a conductor (he has also conducted many the world's finest orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

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, the London Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...

, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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 and several of Europe's leading orchestras, including the Munich Symphony Orchestra

Munich Symphony Orchestra

The Munich Symphony Orchestra is a German orchestra based in Munich. Kurt Graunke founded the orchestra as the Graunke Symphony Orchestra in 1945. The orchestra acquired its current name in 1990...

, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra can refer to one of two orchestras:* The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, known from 1956 to 1993 as the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and situated in West Berlin during the Cold War...

, the Budapest Opera Orchestra, the Lubliana Radio Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic).

Since 2006, John Scott has been the Artistic Director of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra a is 75-member American symphony orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. Its artistic director and resident conductor is John Scott...

.

External links

• JOS Records Official Site
• John Scott and the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
  Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
  The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra a is 75-member American symphony orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. Its artistic director and resident conductor is John Scott...