Shakespeare And All That Jazz - Cleo Laine (arr. John Dankworth) (1964)

Rather late for a Dankworth tribute. Let's call it a Cleo Laine tribute instead. Or a Shakespeare tribute.

Some of this is sort of kooky, some of it as inscrutably off-the-wall as the cover. Of the tracks posted here, I'd only heard It Was A Lover and His Lass before, sung by Al Bowlly.


If Music Be The Food Of Love (Twelfth Night)

Duet of Sonnets

Winter (Love's Labour's Lost)

It Was A Lover And His Lass (As You Like It) (Young)

Witches, Fair And Foul (Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Fear No More (Cymbeline)

Unless otherwise indicated, all tracks were written by Dankworth and, erm, Shakespeare.