With plans to incorporate one or two South African acts into her set, five-time Grammy-award-winning jazz singer, bassist, songwriter, and composer, Esperanza Emily Spalding, looks forward to immersing herself to the people and spirit of Joburg jazz fans.

On Friday, Cleo Laine's death was confirmed by the Stables, a British arts center that she founded with her late husband, John Dankworth. She was 97.

Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.’s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home country as well as on Broadway, died Thursday at age 97.