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Jul 27, 2025 12:04pm

A JOURNEY OF LIFETIME FAVOURITES ROUND TWO 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....<img 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alt="Cleo Laine, British jazz singer who ..."> TriviaDame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Hitching; 28 October 1927 – 24 July 2025) was an English singer and actress known for her <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>. She was the wife of <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> composer and musician <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> and the mother of bassist <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> and singer <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>.Laine auditioned successfully at the age of 24 for <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 & His Orchestra as well as Johnny Dankworth & His New Radio Orchestra, with which she performed until 1958. Dankworth and Laine married that year. She played the lead in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Reckord" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Barry Reckord</a>'s Flesh to a Tiger at London's <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Osborne" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Osborne</a> and <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 The Barren One, <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 <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerma" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Yerma</a>. This led to other stage performances, such as the musical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmouth_(musical)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Valmouth</a> in 1959, the play A Time to Laugh (with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Robert Morley</a> and <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, Boots With Strawberry Jam (with <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 <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Show Boat</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphi_Theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Adelphi Theatre</a> in London in 1971. Show Boat had its longest run to date from that London season with 910 performances staged.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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Edinburgh Festival</a> production of <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 <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);">The Seven Deadly Sins</a>, directed and choreographed by <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 Shakespeare and All that Jazz album with Dankworth was well received. Dankworth and Laine founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stables" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the Stables</a> 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);">[</a> It eventually hosted over 350 concerts per year.Laine's international activities began in 1972, with a successful first tour of Australia, where she released six top-100 albums throughout the 1970s. Shortly afterwards, her career in the United States was launched with a concert at New York's <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Carnegie Hall</a> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Muppet Show</a> in 1977. This led, after several nominations, to her first <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. She performed live in the UK as late as 2018.She collaborated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Galway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">James Galway</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Kennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Nigel Kennedy</a>, <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> and <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Ray Charles</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Porgy and Bess</a>) as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Arnold Schoenberg</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot_Lunaire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Pierrot Lunaire</a>, for which she received a Grammy Award nomination.Laine's relationship with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">musical theatre</a> started in Britain and continued in the United States with starring performances in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Stephen Sondheim</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Night_Music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">A Little Night Music</a> and <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Widow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Merry Widow</a> (<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 Colette, a musical by Dankworth. The show began at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stables" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">the Stables</a> theatre, <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 <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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood_(musical)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">The Mystery of Edwin Drood</a>, for which she received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Tony</a> nomination. In 1989, she received the Los Angeles critics' acclaim for her portrayal of the Witch in Sondheim's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Woods" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Into the Woods</a>. In May 1992, Laine appeared with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Frank Sinatra</a> for a week of concerts at the <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> in London.