After the tragedy, one question haunted me: how do you miss an unborn child? Everything was golden in the weeks after my son died. Glimmering threads of light spooled through my kitchen window and illuminated the most mundane objects, making them look sacred. Sunlight danced on the concrete in my […]

Celebrated singer with an agile contralto voice who, with her husband John Dankworth, helped bring new audiences to jazz Cleo Laine, who has died aged 97, was not only the most creatively and materially successful jazz singer the UK scene has known, but was also respected worldwide as one of […]