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<p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><em style="background-color: rgb(60, 120, 216); color: rgb(0, 255, 255);">A JOURNEY OF</em><em style="background-color: rgb(60, 120, 216); color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> LIFETIME FAVOURITES</em></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ROUND TWO</em></p><p><br></p><p>This theme for Round Two is TRIBUTE to a true Jazz icon Cleo Laine who sadly passed away this week....For me, she is a true British Jazz legend. I know she will be sadly missed...However, her music will live on....</p><p><img 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alt="Cleo Laine, British jazz singer who ..."></p><p><br></p><p>Trivia</p><p><strong style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth</strong><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">&nbsp;(born&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Clementine Dinah Hitching</strong><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">; 28 October 1927 – 24 July 2025) was an English singer and actress known for her&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">scat singing</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">.&nbsp;She was the wife of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">jazz</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">&nbsp;composer and musician&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dankworth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sir John Dankworth</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">&nbsp;and the mother of bassist&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Dankworth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alec Dankworth</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">&nbsp;and singer&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Dankworth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jacqui Dankworth</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">.</span></p><p>Laine auditioned successfully at the age of 24 for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dankworth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Dankworth</a>'s small group, the Johnny Dankworth Seven. Laine later played with his big bands, Johnny Dankworth &amp; His Orchestra as well as Johnny Dankworth &amp; His New Radio Orchestra, with which she performed until 1958. Dankworth and Laine married that year.&nbsp;She played the lead in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Reckord" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Barry Reckord</a>'s&nbsp;<em>Flesh to a Tiger</em>&nbsp;at London's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Court_Theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Royal Court Theatre</a>, home of the new wave of playwrights of the 1950s such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Osborne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Osborne</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Harold Pinter</a>. The same year, she played the title role in&nbsp;<em>The Barren One,</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wynter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Sylvia Wynter</a>'s adaptation of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Federico García Lorca</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerma" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Yerma</em></a><em>.</em>&nbsp;This led to other stage performances, such as the musical&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmouth_(musical)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Valmouth</em></a>&nbsp;in 1959, the play&nbsp;<em>A Time to Laugh</em>&nbsp;(with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Robert Morley</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gordon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Ruth Gordon</a>) in 1962,&nbsp;<em>Boots With Strawberry Jam</em>&nbsp;(with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Neville_(actor)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Neville</a>) in 1968, and eventually to her role as Julie in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Toye" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Wendy Toye</a>'s production of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Show Boat</em></a>&nbsp;at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphi_Theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Adelphi Theatre</a>&nbsp;in London in 1971.&nbsp;<em>Show Boat</em>&nbsp;had its longest run to date from that London season with 910 performances staged.</p><p>During this period, Laine had two major recording successes. "You'll Answer to Me" reached the British Top 10 while Laine was "prima donna" in the 1961&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Edinburgh Festival</a>&nbsp;production of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Kurt Weill</a>'s opera/ballet&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(ballet_chant%C3%A9)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>The Seven Deadly Sins</em></a>, directed and choreographed by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_MacMillan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Kenneth MacMillan</a>. In 1964, her&nbsp;<em>Shakespeare and All that Jazz</em>&nbsp;album with Dankworth was well received. Dankworth and Laine founded&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stables" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the Stables</a>&nbsp;theatre in 1970, in what was the old stables block in the grounds of their home.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Laine#cite_note-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><sup>[</sup></a>&nbsp;It eventually hosted over 350 concerts per year.</p><p>Laine's international activities began in 1972, with a successful first tour of Australia, where she released six top-100 albums throughout the 1970s.&nbsp;Shortly afterwards, her career in the United States was launched with a concert at New York's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Lincoln Center</a>, followed in 1973 by the first of her many&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Carnegie Hall</a>&nbsp;appearances. Coast-to-coast tours of the US and Canada soon followed, and with them a succession of record albums and television appearances, including on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>The Muppet Show</em></a>&nbsp;in 1977.&nbsp;This led, after several nominations, to her first&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Grammy award</a>, in recognition of the live recording of her 1983 Carnegie concert. She kept touring into the 21st century, including in Australia in 2005.&nbsp;She performed live in the UK as late as 2018.</p><p>She collaborated with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">James Galway</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Kennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Nigel Kennedy</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lloyd_Webber" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Julian Lloyd Webber</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams_(guitarist)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Williams</a>. Other important recordings during that time were duet albums with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Ray Charles</a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Porgy and Bess</em></a>) as well as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Arnold Schoenberg</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot_Lunaire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Pierrot Lunaire</em></a>, for which she received a Grammy Award nomination.</p><p>Laine's relationship with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">musical theatre</a>&nbsp;started in Britain and continued in the United States with starring performances in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Stephen Sondheim</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>A Little Night Music</em></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Leh%C3%A1r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Franz Lehár</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Widow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>The Merry Widow</em></a>&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Opera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Michigan Opera</a>). In 1980 she starred in&nbsp;<em>Colette</em>, a musical by Dankworth. The show began at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stables" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the Stables</a>&nbsp;theatre,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavendon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Wavendon</a>, in 1979 and transferred to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter_Theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Comedy Theatre</a>, London, in September 1980. In 1985 she originated the role of Princess Puffer in the Broadway musical&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood_(musical)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>The Mystery of Edwin Drood</em></a>, for which she received a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Tony</a>&nbsp;nomination. In 1989, she received the Los Angeles critics' acclaim for her portrayal of the Witch in Sondheim's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Woods" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);"><em>Into the Woods</em></a>.&nbsp;In May 1992, Laine appeared with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Frank Sinatra</a>&nbsp;for a week of concerts at the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Royal Albert Hall</a>&nbsp;in London.</p><p><br></p>