Cleo Laine
With a multi-octave voice similar to Betty Carter's, incredible scatting ability, and ease of transition from a throaty whisper to high-pitched trills, Cleo Laine was born in 1927 in the Southall section of London, the daughter of a Jamaican father and English mother. Her parents sent her to vocal and dance lessons as a teenager, but she was 25 when she first sang professionally, after a successful audition with the big band led by Johnny Dankworth. Both Laine and the band recorded for Esquire, MGM and Pye during the late '50s, and by 1958, she was married to Dankworth.
With Dankworth by her side, Laine began her solo career in earnest with a 1964 album of Shakespeare lyrics set to Dankworth's arrangements, Shakespeare: And All That Jazz. Laine also gained renown for the first of three concert albums recorded at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1973's Cleo Laine Live! At Carnegie Hall. She also recorded two follow-ups (Return to Carnegie and The 10th Anniversary Concert) the latter of which in 1983 won her the first Grammy award by a Briton. She has proved a rugged stage actress as well, winning a Theater World award for her role in the Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, (in addition to Tony and Drama Desk nominations as well). In 1976 she recorded a jazz version of Porgy and Bess with Ray Charles, and also recorded duets with James Galway and guitarist John Williams. Laine and Dankworth continued to tour into the 1990s, and she received perhaps her greatest honor when she became the first jazz artist to receive the highest title available in the performing arts: Dame Commander.
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Jazz Matters (featuring 'The Blues Ain't' & 'World Jazz')
Jazz - Erschienen bei Qnote Records am 01.01.2010
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Jazz Britannica, Vol. 1
Alexis Korner, George Melly, Cleo Laine
Jazz - Erschienen bei Editions Audiovisuel Beulah am 21.05.2021
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All About Me
Jazzgesang - Erschienen bei Stage Door am 26.05.2013
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Palladium Jazz Date (Album of 1961)
Cleo Laine, Orchestra Dave Lindup, The Tubby Hayes Quartet
Pop - Erschienen bei British Jazz am 31.03.2021
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The Nixa Jazz Recordings (1956-1958): Cleo's Choice
Cleo Laine, The David Lindup Orchestra
Jazzgesang - Erschienen bei Golden-Tone am 16.09.2013
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Let The Music Take You
Jazz - Erschienen bei Qnote Records am 01.01.1983
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I Got Rhythm (EP of 1956)
Cleo Laine, John Dankworth & his Orchestra, John Dankworth Seven
Pop - Erschienen bei British Jazz am 31.03.2021
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Jazz Britannica, Vol. 4: Annie Ross / Cleo Laine
Jazz - Erschienen bei Editions Audiovisuel Beulah am 24.09.2021
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Carousel
Jazz - Erschienen bei Carooousel & mooore am 26.06.2019
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Eternal Jazz: Cleo Laine - Big Best Shoes
Jazz - Erschienen bei ISIS am 15.04.2022
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Mad About The Boy
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei BritBop am 04.01.2007
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Cleo Sings Elizabethan
Pop - Erschienen bei British Jazz am 31.03.2021
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Cleo Laine - I'm Beginning to See the Light (Vintage Pop)
Pop - Erschienen bei ISIS am 27.07.2023
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Hit The Road To Dreamland
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei BritBop am 06.01.2008
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Just at the Turn of the Tide
Jazz - Erschienen bei turn of the tide am 02.05.2023
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Timeless Songs
Pop - Erschienen bei Music Today Records am 10.02.2015
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