Knight Bachelor
Jazz musicians who received the Knight Bachelor: list of 5 recipients by year.
In the British honours system, the title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry. Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight (the rank existed during the 13th-century reign of King Henry III), but Knights Bachelor rank below knights of chivalric orders. A man who is knighted is formally addressed as "Sir [First Name] [Surname]" or "Sir [First Name]" and his wife as "Lady [Surname]". Awards of the knighthood are announced in The Gazette. Bachelor in heraldic context means junior in rank.
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Recipients
| 2007 | George Shearing British-American jazz pianist |
| 2006 | John Dankworth British musician (1927-2010) |
| — | Malcolm Arnold English composer and conductor (1921–2006) |
| — | Karl Jenkins Welsh musician and composer (b. 1944) |
| — | Richard Rodney Bennett British composer and pianist (1936-2012) |