Word: cleo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Richard Nixon was commenting one night last week on the fact that diplomatic assignments, once so greatly sought after, have now become dangerous in many areas of the world. Indeed they have. The next day, the newly ap pointed U.S. Ambassador to the Sudan, Cleo A. Noel Jr., and the outgoing charge d'affaires, George C. Moore, as well as a Belgian diplomat were murdered by Arab terrorists (see WORLD). Noel thus became the second U.S. ambassador to be killed by terrorists in less than five years. In 1968, John Gordon Mein was slain...
Wordless. Unlike the many jazz singers who grimace, snap their ringers or just plain wonder what to do with themselves during long instrumental introductions and interludes, Cleo knows precisely what is called for: she sings along with all the wordless instrumental agility of a clarinet cozying up to a sax. The man who plays sax to Cleo's clarinet is her arranger, conductor and husband, Johnny Dankworth, himself a leading British jazzman and composer...
...Cleo and Johnny have been a musical team since the day in 1952 when he offered her six quid a week to sing with his band, and she said, "Make it seven." He did. She came from Middlesex, just outside London, where life as a child was, in her words, "clean but scruffy." Her father, a West Indian immigrant, earned part of his living as a busker outside London's music halls and pubs. Her mother, disowned by her parents for marrying a West Indian, saw to it that Cleo and her two brothers "were swamped in lessons"-dancing...
...three, Cleo gave her first public performance at a community variety show, warbling a wobbly Let's All Sing the Barmaid Song. "They couldn't get me off the stage," recalls Cleo. "I knew from the start that this was going to be my career...
...Cleo, like pure-malt Scotch and the metric system, is only beginning to catch on. She and Johnny are scheduled to give a concert in April at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; that appearance will be followed next fall by a month-long American tour. For both events, Cleo manages to be her own worst promoter. "When I hear myself, I don't like it," she says. "I can't get out what I hear in my head. What comes out is mellow and soft; yet what I try to achieve is an 'edge...