Denny Wright

Denys Justin Wright , better known as Denny Wright, was a jazz and skiffle guitarist who performed with Stephane Grappelli, Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Duncan , Digby Fairweather, Ella Fitzgerald, Ken Snakehips Johnson, Billy Eckstine, Fapy Lafertin, Russ Conway, Bireli Lagrene, Humphrey Littleton, Nigel Kennedy and his great friend George Shearing.

Denny Wright was born in Deptford, London, UK, and grew up in Brockley, with frequent forays to the Old Kent Road and the Elephant and Castle. His parents were Joseph William Wright, a skilled wireless telegraphist who worked for the General Post Office and who served with the Royal Engineers throughout World War One, and Selina Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in Hampstead. Dennys paternal family originally came from Polstead and Boxstead in Suffolk, although they had moved to Deptford by 1881. Dennys grandfather, Ephraim Wright, was an Engine Fitter Ephraim died at the age ofon November 26th 1894 at the South Eastern Hospital in Deptford, the victim of Enteric Fever also known as Typhoid. Dennys first instrument was the piano. His older brother, Alex Wright, was a semiprofessional guitarist before the war and Denny, ten years younger, was soon trying to play his brothers guitar. Denny began playing professionally before World War II, while still at school, pulling in a substantia

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