During a career that crossed the Atlantic, the contralto was considered Britain’s finest contribution to the quintessential American genre. By The Associated Press Cleo Laine, whose husky contralto ...
LONDON – John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died. He was 82. Jazz singer Cleo Laine — who married Dankworth in 1958 after meeting during an audition for a spot ...