Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2005
Time: 55:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 130,5 MB
Art: Front
(2:55) 1. Where the Bee Sucks (William Shakespeare)
(3:38) 2. Live With Me and Be My Love (William Shakespeare)
(3:47) 3. Hey Nonny Nonny (William Shakespeare)
(2:17) 4. Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind (William Shakespeare)
(2:29) 5. Under The Greenwood Tree (William Shakespeare)
(3:55) 6. As An Unperfect Actor (William Shakespeare)
(4:11) 7. Over Hill, Over Dale (William Shakespeare)
(3:42) 8. Time, You Old Gypsy Man (Ralph Hodgson)
(1:53) 9. Stupidity Street (Ralph Hodgson)
(3:34) 10. The House Across the Way (Ralph Hodgson)
(2:30) 11. The Ousel Cock (Ralph Hodgson)
(2:39) 12. Love Among the Haycocks (Ralph Hodgson)
(3:48) 13. Drink to Me Only
(1:27) 14. Mesthuselah
(3:31) 15. Sinner's Rue
(2:12) 16. When I Was One and Twenty
(2:56) 17. We Are the Music Makers
(4:28) 18. Once Upon a Time
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, DBE (born 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a "G above high C", giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves.
Laine is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer Sir John Dankworth.
Laine was born Clementine Dinah Bullock in Uxbridge, Middlesex, to unmarried parents Alexander Sylvan Campbell, a black Jamaican father who worked as a building labourer and regularly busked, and Minnie Bullock, a white English mother, a farmer's daughter from Swindon, Wiltshire. The family moved round constantly, but most of Laine's childhood was spent in Southall. She attended the Board School there on Featherstone Road (later known as Featherstone Primary School) and was sent by her mother for singing and dancing lessons at an early age. She went on to attend Mellow Lane Senior School in Hayes before going on to work as an apprentice hairdresser, a hat-trimmer, a librarian and in a pawnbroker's shop.
In 1946, under the name Clementina Dinah Campbell, Laine married George Langridge, a roof tiler, with whom she had a son, Stuart. The couple divorced in 1957. It was not until 1953, when she was 26 and applying for a passport for a forthcoming tour of Germany that Laine found out her real birth name, due to her parents not being married at the time and her mother registering her under her own name.
Laine did not take up singing professionally until her mid-twenties. She auditioned successfully, at the age of 24, for the Johnny Dankworth Seven band, led by musician John Dankworth (1927–2010), with which she performed until 1958, when she married Dankworth in secret at Hampstead Register Office. The only witnesses were the couple's friend, pianist Ken Moule, and his arranger, David Lindup. The couple had two children, Alec who lives in the USA and Jacqui, a British singer who has released a number of albums. Both became successful musicians in their own right.
Laine began her career as a singer and actress. She played the lead in a new play at London's Royal Court Theatre, home of the new wave of playwrights of the 1950s such as John Osborne and Harold Pinter. This led to other stage performances, such as the musicalValmouth in 1959, the play A Time to Laugh (with Robert Morley and Ruth Gordon) in 1962, Boots With Strawberry Jam (with John Neville) in 1968, and eventually to her role as show-stopping Julie La Verne in Wendy Toye's production of Show Boat at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1971. Show Boat had its longest run to date in that London season with 910 performances staged.
During this period, she had two major recording successes. "You'll Answer to Me" reached the British Top 10 while Laine was "prima donna" in the 1961 Edinburgh Festival production of Kurt Weill's opera/ballet The Seven Deadly Sins, directed and choreographed by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. In 1964 her Shakespeare and All that Jazz album with Dankworth received widespread critical acclaim.
Laine's international activities began in 1972, with a successful first tour of Australia. Shortly afterwards, her career in the United States was launched with a concert at New York's Lincoln Center, followed in 1973 by the first of many Carnegie Hall appearances. Coast-to-coast tours of the U.S. and Canada soon followed, and with them a succession of record albums and television appearances, including The Muppet Show in 1977. This led, after several nominations, to her first Grammy award, in recognition of the live recording of her 1983 Carnegie concert. She has continued to tour periodically, including in Australia in 2005.
She has collaborated with many well-known classical musicians including James Galway, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Lloyd Webber and John Williams.
Other important recordings during that time were duet albums with Ray Charles (Porgy and Bess) as well as Arnold Schoenberg'sPierrot Lunaire, which won Laine a classical Grammy nomination.More......https://www.tumblr.com/blackkudos/131861060297/cleo-laine-dame-cleo-laine-lady-dankworth-dbe
Personnel: Cleo Laine: Vocals; John Dankworth: Composer of the poems set to music
Once Upon a Time
