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| Andre Previn - All The Right Notes | ...... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...CLEO LAINE revisits the golden age of the all-girl swing band in the UNITED STATES and America. From Ivy Benson to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, she explores the careers of professional women musicians from the 1940s in their own words and music.... |
| Bbc Jazz Awards 2008 | ...Paul Gambaccini presents the BBC Jazz Awards, featuring Chick Corea and Return to Forever giving an exclusive unplugged performance for the first time in the UK in 25 years. Plus Charlie Haden and Sir John Dankworth and Dame CLEO LAINE.... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...Paying tribute to the enduring genius of Shakespeare, John Dankworth and CLEO LAINE celebrate their 80th birthdays in the company of the Bard himself. Dankworth fashions a sequence of Shakespeare settings that really swing, and celebrates his friendship with Duke Ellington by performing his Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder.... |
| Ella - The Ultimate Jazz Diva | ...CLEO LAINE presents a six-part series charting the career of perhaps the greatest star of jazz vocalisation. This first programme reveals the true story behind Ella's rise from the streets of New York to fame with the Chick Webb band in Harlem.... |
| Jazz Library | ...CLEO LAINE... |
| Jazz Line-up | ...Dankworth's unsusual sextet features a mix of leading British players: guitarist Phil Robson, saxophonist Julian Arguelles and Chris Garrick on violin, with the typically Spanish drumwork of Barcelona-based Marc Miralta and drone-work from French bagpipe expert Jean-Pierre Rasle. Three tracks include singing from the youngest member of the Dankworth dynasty, Emily, as well as the great CLEO LAINE.... |
| John And Cleo At 75 | ...Michael Parkinson presents a four-part series celebrating the lives and work of John Dankworth and CLEO LAINE.... |
| Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats | ...In the first of four programmes, he talks to Britain's Queen of Jazz, Dame CLEO LAINE about the First Lady of Song - Ella Fitzgerald. When Dame Cleo won her first Grammy in 1985, Ella sent two dozen roses and a note reading, 'Congratulations, gal and about time, too. Love Ella.' The admiration was mutual. "... |
| Phil Collins Big Band Bash | ...In his continuing his series tracing the evolution of big bands, Phil Collins looks at the interesting, the unusual and the downright quirky - from a big band version of Verdi's `Anvil Chorus' to CLEO LAINE singing the titles of the entire works of Shakespeare in 90 seconds.... |
| Soul Music | ...The programme includes interviews with Tony Benn, Paul Robeson Jr and CLEO LAINE ... |
| Sound Stories | ...Peggy Reynolds introduces music inspired by Shakespeare's romantic fantasy `The Tempest'. Locke: Curtain Tune (The Tempest). Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini. Anon: Come unto these yellow sands; Full fathom five. Leslie French (tenor). Henze: Ariel (Royal Winter Music I). Julian Bream (guitar). Frederick Corder: Overture `Prospero'. English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones. JC Smith: No more dams I'll make for fish. Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano). Dankworth: Our revels now are ended. CLEO LAINE (vocal). Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op 31 No 2 (Tempest) (2nd mvt). Stephen Kovacevich.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...Afternoon / Jocasta By Andrew Rissik Juliet Aubrey reads this new monologue exploring the psyche of Queen Jocasta, wife of Oedipus. It is early morning, and Oedipus has discovered that his wife is also his mother. Sitting alone, outcast, we are drawn into Jocasta's world as she tries to understand her situation, her guilt and what she feels compelled to do. Jocasta....Juliet Aubrey / Vocal Pyrotechnics From the early days of Baroque vocal ornamentation, through the florid coloratura of 18th Century opera, to the remarkable scat improvisations of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, the human voice has fascinated and amazed audiences for hundreds of years. Inspired by the vocal pyrotechnics of tonight's conductor, Bobby McFerrin, jazz singer Stephen Duffy looks at the history of vocal athletics, and discovers the origins of the virtuoso voice. With contributions from singers Catherine Bott and Dame CLEO LAINE, and vocal coaches Gordon Stewart and Linda Hirst. Evening Morning... |
| Women In Jazz | ...Dame CLEO LAINE reflects on her long and successful musical career, and considers other top female jazz singers taken from the Women in Jazz archive in Swansea - which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.... |
| Words And Music | ...With poems and texts by Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dorothy Parker, Walter de la Mare and Margaret Drabble as well as music from Delius, Warlock, Bach and CLEO LAINE ... |