Cleo Laine, Preeminent U.K. Jazz Singer and Tony-Nominated Theater Actress, Dies at 97

Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.’s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home country as well as on Broadway, died Thursday at age 97. The death was announced by leading figures in the Stables, a British arts center that Laine founded with her late husband, the musician and […]