Friday, 16. November 2007
Topic: MUSIK - on November 16, 2007 at 12:05:00 PM CET
'Beethoven with a bass guitar? Fine!'
The journey of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth began in the late 1940s, in a gloomy postwar Britain of bombsites and ration books. It's a world away from the elegant lounge of their Victorian rectory in Buckinghamshire, where they've lived since 1969, and where I now sit waiting. Clocks chime in distant rooms. A grand piano looms over a TV. There are lots of pictures: family snaps, dark oil paintings, portraits of Laine, and shots of the musical giants the couple have worked with, from Dizzy Gillespie to Sarah Vaughan, from Frank Sinatra to Ray Charles.
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