Miriam Kline born 27 March 1937

Miriam Klein (born 27 March 1937) is a Swiss jazz singer. 

Miriam Klein was born in Basel, Switzerland and active in jazz from her teenage years and first rose to prominence when she performed in Paris in the 1950s with Pierre Michelot, Don Byas, and the pianist Art Simmons. After training at the music school in Vienna, she returned to Switzerland and sang in the formations of her husband Oscar Klein from 1963 and also made recordings under her own name. 

                             Here’s “I Cried For You” from above album.                    

                                    

In the 1960s and 1970s, she became internationally known as a singer. During this time, she recorded an album of Bessie Smith titles. In 1973, the international breakthrough came with the album "Lady Like", which was dedicated to Billie Holiday. Miriam was accompanied by musicians such as Roy Eldridge, Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton, but the album had a mixed reception.

She was interested in singing in the style of her role model, but not copying her, the singer said. Roy Eldridge said after recording with Miriam Klein: Her voice would have been much more suitable for the film "Lady Sings the Blues" than that of Diana Ross. 

She recorded with Albert Nicholas (1971) and Wild Bill Davison (1975) and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974. In 1977 Klein worked with the Fritz Pauer Trio, and in 1978 with Sir Roland Hanna and George Mraz on their album "By Myself". At the Frankfurt Jazz Festival in 1980, she was accompanied by Hans Koller's International Brass Company. In 1981/82 she went on tour with Kenny Clarke, Hanna and Isla Eckinger. 

She has toured in Germany, Netherlands, Italy, former Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland and has had appearances on radio and TV. In 2001, she took part in My Marilyn, the album of her son David Klein. 

(Scant information edited from Wikipedia, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz & Discogs)