Singer Cleo Laine, regarded as Britain’s greatest jazz voice, dies at 97

Singer Cleo Laine, regarded as Britain’s greatest jazz voice, dies at 97

Laine’s career spanned the Atlantic and crossed genres: She sang the songs of Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg and Robert Schumann; she acted on stage and on film, and even played God in a production of Benjamin Britten’s “Noye’s Fludde.”