Monty Sunshine

Jazz clarinetist and bandleader, born in London on 8 April 1928, died 30 November 2010. Was at the forefront of the traditional jazz boom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Monty Sunshine's great-great-grandparents had come to England from Romania and had anglicised their surname to Sunshine. His father was a tailor who also played the violin.