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Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth - The Collection [Recorded 1952-1983] (2002)

Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth - The Collection [Recorded 1952-1983] (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 309 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 129 MB | Covers - 8 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Spectrum Music (5447 70-2)

They are two of the greatest talents in UK popular music; whether she is singing her beloved jazz, ballads, or setting Shakespearean sonnets to Dankworth’s music; her voice resonates, clear and true. She is always supported by his Fine alto sax work and his sympathetic arrangements. Theirs is one oF the most durable partnerships in music as they began playing together in the mid-50's, before marrying in 1958.

Cleo Laine - Blue And Sentimental (1994)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 4, 2022
Cleo Laine - Blue And Sentimental (1994)

Cleo Laine - Blue And Sentimental (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 302 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 140 MB | Covers - 19 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA/BMG (09026-61419-2)

This album would be worth buying for one track alone, a faultless version of "The Lies Of Handsome Men", Francesca Blumenthal's unsettling little song about self-deception. Not only does Cleo Laine have the musicality and dramatic skill to do justice to a delicate piece like this, she also has the best possible musical director in John Dankworth, who plays some very good alto saxophone here, too. The programme of 13 songs is impeccably chosen, as usual. Few singers, jazz or otherwise, have ever commanded a stylistic range anywhere near Cleo Laine's. For example, after opening with the Blumenthal song she goes on, via Gershwin and Irving Berlin, to Bessie Smith. The most remarkable thing of all about her is that she and Dankworth have been making intelligent, enterprising albums like this for more than 40 years and there is absolutely no sign of wear and tear. Quite the reverse, in fact. The work just goes on getting better.

Cleo Laine - That Old Feeling (1984)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 6, 2022
Cleo Laine - That Old Feeling (1984)

Cleo Laine - That Old Feeling (1984)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 292 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 156 MB | Covers - 7 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Object Enterprises (R0003)

More elaborate, mid-'80s session that accents Cleo Laine's interpretative abilities. It showcases both her immaculate technique and her ability to build and create moods, pace songs, and embellish lyrics.

Cleo Laine - Cleo's Choice [Recorded 1956-1957] (1993)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 28, 2022
Cleo Laine - Cleo's Choice [Recorded 1956-1957] (1993)

Cleo Laine - Cleo's Choice [Recorded 1956-1957] (1993)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 272 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 111 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: GNP/Crescendo Records (GNPD 9024)

Laine, an accomplished actress and performer, displays her distinctive voice and technique covering everything from standards to show tunes and things in between. One of her best early albums, which is now available on CD.

Cleo Laine & James Galway - Sometimes When We Touch (1980)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 2, 2022
Cleo Laine & James Galway - Sometimes When We Touch (1980)

Cleo Laine & James Galway - Sometimes When We Touch (1980)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 255 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 109 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA (RCD1-3628)

Cleo Laine and James Galway have produced a wonderful album of songs in which there is not a single dud. The whole recording is brilliant, but there is a special place in our hearts for Skylark. Hoagy Carmichael's song has been sensitively arranged and performed by two of Britain's finest musicians. John Dankworth and the rest of the band complement them superbly. It is now approaching 40 years since it was recorded, and sounds as fresh as when it was made.

Cleo Laine with The Duke Ellington Orchestra - Solitude (1995)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 27, 2022
Cleo Laine with The Duke Ellington Orchestra - Solitude (1995)

Cleo Laine with The Duke Ellington Orchestra - Solitude (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 369 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 148 MB | Covers - 28 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Big Band | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA/BMG (09026-68124-2)

Rather than being guests, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth have lent their names to the Duke Ellington Orchestra, giving them considerable control over the session; while Mercer Ellington is listed as leader, the conductor and principal arranger is Dankworth. One unfortunate result of this arrangement is that some of the offerings are "based on variations or adaptations" of the original Ellington and/or Billy Strayhorn compositions. Thus, "Chelsea Bridge" comes out "September Rain," and "Take the 'A' Train" is "Cleo's 'A' Train." Neither come off well - and the latter title is presumptuous. "We're Rockin' in Rhythm" has its moments, especially Dankworth's clarinet solo in the style of Jimmy Hamilton. The best "variation" is "Love Call," based on "Creole Love Call"…

Mel Tormé & Cleo Laine - Nothing Without You (1992)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 24, 2022
Mel Tormé & Cleo Laine - Nothing Without You (1992)

Mel Torme & Cleo Laine - Nothing Without You (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 307 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 132 MB | Covers - 33 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Concord Jazz (CCD-4515)

Mel Tormé is in typically fine form on this Concord set; the problem is his musical partner Cleo Laine. Although often classified as a jazz singer, Laine, who has a tremendous range and a lovely voice, seems incapable of improvising. Backed by a 12-piece group led by Laine's husband John Dankworth, the duo perform a variety of mostly superior standards, but nothing unexpected happens - except for a somewhat disastrous "Two Tune Medley." On the latter, Tormé and Laine sing 20 songs, generally two at a time, in less than five minutes.

Cleo Laine - Jazz (1991)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 31, 2021
Cleo Laine - Jazz (1991)

Cleo Laine - Jazz (1991)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 356 MB | Covers - 14 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA Victor (60548-2-RC)

Cleo Laine has always had a beautiful voice with a very wide range and she sounds her best in jazz settings. Laine isn't that much of a jazz singer herself since she does not improvise (her scatting passages tend to be played in unison with her husband, John Dankworth) but she swings. Jazz is one of her best sets of the '90s, teaming her with five reeds (including Dankworth), guitarist Larry Koonse and one of two rhythm sections. Gerry Mulligan guests on "Walking Shoes" and "Midnight Sun," Clark Terry is exuberant on "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" and a medium-tempo version of "A Child Is Born," Toots Thielemans is a strong asset on three songs, Jane Ira Bloom co-stars on "I Told You So" and Mark Whitfield is on the two Terry numbers. Throughout, Cleo Laine is heard in prime form, not offering surprises as much as confirmation of her love for jazz.

Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore - Smilin' Through (1982) [1992, Reissue]  Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Sept. 20, 2023
Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore - Smilin' Through (1982) [1992, Reissue]

Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore - Smilin' Through (1982) [1992, Reissue]
Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Vocal | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 39:09 | 237,88 Mb
Label: RCA Victor/BMG Classics (USA) | Cat.# 09026 61177-2 | Released: 1992-04-14 (1982)

This album is the result of two giant entertainers from the British Isles getting together in London in 1982 for a session of ballads and traditional pop. Dudley Moore was more famous, at least in the United States, for his comedic roles in a number of films. But he was a pianist and composer of no mean skills. Cleo Laine had been a singing talent of the first order since the 1950s and often performed and recorded with husband and sax player John Dankworth. Dankworth is present on one cut on this album. While Moore dashes off some nice solo work on such cuts as "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" and an Erroll Garner-like "I Can't Give You Anything but Love," it's Laine's wide-ranged, full-throated, expressive, and clear-as-a-mountain-lake voice that dominates the session.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta - Sol & Pat (2021)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 9, 2022
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta - Sol & Pat (2021)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta - Sol & Pat: Leclair, Widmann, Bach, Coll, Ravel, Markowicz, Zbinden, Xenakis, Ligeti, Kodály (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 80:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 757 | Recorded: 2014, 2018

This album celebrates a musical rapport that has lasted for twenty years and, above all, a true friendship: ‘We’re like two sisters, on stage and in life’, as Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta like to say. In parallel with their dazzling solo careers, they have frequently got together for concerts in trio or double concerto formation (like the one written for them by Francisco Coll, recently released on ALPHA580). But they have conceived their new recording for a rather rare combination, the violin cello duo – with the aim of choosing pieces they found interesting either stylistically or for the way they use the instruments.