Barry Green

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 in London and 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 and Michel Legrand and in 2013 she received the APPJAG Special Award in recognition of her inestimable contribution to the UK jazz scene. Appearing this afternoon as a duo with the wonderful Barry Green-piano (Bobby Watson, Charles McPherson), Elaine will be performing music from her latest album "Speak Low" (which received five stars from BBC Music Magazine) along with a programme of swinging American Songbook standards. "Delmar…truly defines the word class" BBC Radio 2