Cleo Laine, an English singer who moved easily among musical genres with a dazzling vocal range of almost five octaves and who nurtured a dual career as an actress, performing in musicals and dramatic ...

Earlier this month, a documentary went up at YouTube produced by the BBC as part of its Jazz Britannia series. The documentary tracks the rise of post-war British jazz and helps explain why ...

Cleo Laine, a British jazz, pop and classical singer who received Grammy nominations in all three of those categories, has died. Her family announced the news today. She was 97 years old. Laine was ...

Together with Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk, he was one of the 'Three B’s' who defined traditional jazz in Britain and spearheaded the 'Trad' revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Barber had briefly ...