Does anyone have a word for this concert. Whether you like her voice or not, I think Cleo Laine's sounds very good for someone who's nearly 80. I felt tonight, though, that the thees and thous did not sit easily with a jazz idiom. I didn't agree with about half of the interval talk, either (about certain jazz players being bad singers).

Just catching up with some of it now, and there's a great big grin on my face, hearing for the first time since 1967 some of the score that Dankworth supplied for Frank Dunlop's Edinburgh Festival Production of MND in which Cleo Laine doubled Hippolyta and Tytania (later seen at the Saville theatre). The voice is in amazing fettle for an octogenarian. Will have to come back later: time to set up for tonight's Prom...