Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What sad news Saw them at the Maltings years and years ago - absolutely brilliant. I hear their daughter Jacqui is carrying on the Dankworth story. Cleo was always one of the best British jazz singers, she made a really fantastic album with John Williams (the guitarist, not the film theme composer) it's still one of my favourite jazz records of all time. I suppose all we've got left now in the way of really, really good, contemporary Brit-jazz is Mike & Kate Westbrook. Cheers Douglas On 07.02.2010 09:41, Charlie Chan wrote: > Yesterday, sadly one of the post war Jazz legends passed away. What a > wonderful musician and composer - an icon of the 50s, 60s and 70s. I > saw him last year at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival with his wife Cleo > Laine. > > http://topoxforddoc.zenfolio.com/p352195304 > > RIP > > Charlie Chan > Cheltenham, UK > > topoxforddoc at btinternet.com > www.cancer-surgeon.co.uk > www.charlie-chan.co.uk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >