DAME CLEO LAINE AND JOHN DANKWORTH RETURN TO FEINSTEIN'S

FEINSTEIN'S at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue, NYC - 1-212-339-4095 - http://www.feinsteinsattheregency.com/) continues its fall season with the return engagement of international jazz legends Dame Cleo Laine with John Dankworth. The engagement runs from November 11th through 15th. The engagement will play the following schedule: Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30 pm with a late show on Friday and Saturday at 11:00 pm. All shows have a $60 cover and $30 minimum. Jackets are suggested, but not required.

Dame Cleo Laine, hailed as "The Queen of Jazz," is one of the most renowned singers of our time and the only singer to receive Grammy Award nominations in the Female Jazz, Popular, and Classical categories. In addition to regular concert appearances with her husband and professional partner, John Dankworth, Cleo is also an experienced actress. In London's West End, she starred in Show Boat and Colette. On Broadway, she starred in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for which she received a Tony Award nomination, a Theatre World Award, and a Drama Desk nomination. Other US appearances include A Little Night Music, The Merry Widow, and Into the Woods, for which she received a Los Angeles Drama Critic Award. Her albums include: Blue and Sentimental (featuring Joe Williams, Gerry Mulligan and Clark Terry), Jazz (featuring Toots Thielemans, Clark Terry and Mark Whitfield), Cleo Sings Sondheim and the Grammy Award winning Cleo at Carnegie 10th Anniversary. Cleo has been honored by the Queen of England and received an honorary degree from the Berklee School of Music. She is the recipient of the Variety Club's "Personality of the Year," a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Jazz Society.

John Dankworth is as an incredible composer, performer, and conductor continually crossing conventional musical boundaries. In addition to his recording and composing, John performs with his jazz ensemble, big band, and as pops music conductor of many of the world's great symphonies. He frequently tours with his wife and this past year their collaborations included the Carnegie Hall JVC Jazz Festival and some thirty engagements across the country. They recently embarked on a ten-city tour with the Ellington Orchestra, in support of their disk entitled Solitude. Among his symphony Pops recordings, he is most proud of his Grammy Award nomination (Best Instrumental Arrangement) for "Caravan" on Misty. He has been honored at the prestigious British Jazz Awards, receiving awards for band leader and musical arrangements.

 

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