Cleo Laine, Britain's finest and most-celebrated jazz-pop singer who, with alto saxophonist and clarinetist Johnny Dankworth, began recording in 1951 but became much better known in the U.K. than in the U.S., died on July 24. She was 97. [Photo above of Cleo Laine, courtesy of the Irish Independent]
Dankworth and Laine married in 1958, and over the cours…
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