Elaine Delmar ft. Barry Green (Birthday Gig)

It’s fair to say that after 60 years in the business Elaine Delmar is very much Jazz “Royalty”.

From work at 16 with her father, the famous Leslie “Jiver” Hutchinson, through leading roles in stage musicals such as ‘Bubbling Brown Sugar’ in London and ‘Kern Goes to Hollywood’ on Broadway to a successful recording career that started in the 1960’s and continues to this day, Elaine has established herself as an international artist of talent, poise and grace.

She has appeared in concert with the likes of Andy Williams, Michel Legrand and the London Symphony Orchestra (Royal Albert Hall) and it is a testament to the enormous respect with which she is held that in 2013 she received the APPJAG Special Parliamentary Jazz Award in recognition of her inestimable contribution to the UK jazz scene.

Appearing this afternoon as a duo with the wonderful Barry Green-piano (Ian Shaw, Bobby Watson, Charles McPherson), Elaine will be performing music from her latest album "Speak Low" (which just received five stars from BBC Music Magazine) along with a programme of swinging American Songbook standards.

One of the masters of the genre!"Truly defines the word class" BBC Radio 2; “The one who really shone was pianist Barry Green" Daily Telegraph