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Cleo Laine

Jazz
Jazz

Cleo Laine is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Melissa Manchester, Richard Rodney Bennett and Kansas Joe McCoy. Those roots explain a lot about how Cleo Laine arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as June Christy, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson and Annie Ross, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Rob Dougan, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Cleo Laine, reaching back through Melissa Manchester and forward to Rob Dougan. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Cleo LaineMelissa ManchesterRichard Rodney BennettKansas Joe McCoyRob DouganJune ChristyPeggy LeeDinah WashingtonNancy WilsonAnnie RossBetty CarterAbbey LincolnCarmen McRae

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Cleo Laine connections

Cleo Laine grew out of Melissa Manchester, Richard Rodney Bennett and Kansas Joe McCoy, shares an orbit with June Christy, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson, went on to shape Rob Dougan. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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