Elaine Delmar, our most beautiful, stylish, evergreen jazz singer and multiple award winner, returns to Dean Street, with her long-established favourite trio- plus musical guests, for this Sunday Evening Concert, to raise funds for her chosen children’s and young persons charity Afasic – Voice for Life
Elaine has been performing since the mid-1950s when she joined Coleridge Goode’s band the Dominoes. One of Elaine’s first recordings (in 1961) was ‘A Swingin’ Chick’ with Victor Feldman. She toured the UK in 1964 opening for Cannonball Adderley, and was Bill Evans’ regular chosen opening act at Ronnie Scott’s. Elaine made countless TV and radio appearances for the BBC and Granada TV, sung in theatre shows in the West End and on Broadway, performed at the Royal Albert Hall with the LSO & Michel Legrand and toured with jazz greats Benny Carter and Herb Ellis. She has sung at the North Sea Jazz Festival and more recently at the BBC Proms. In 2010, she featured in concert with Wynton Marsalis's Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. She still regularly appears at Ronnie Scott’s, having first appeared at the club opening for Ben Webster in the early 1960s, and last year performed to sold out audiences in the London Jazz Festival at Pizza Express Jazz Club with the Mark Nightingale Big Band. In 2023 she won Best Vocalist at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards. And launched in October 2024, her new Album “Speak Low”, which she described as:-
“This, my first album in many years, features some of the real treasures from my repertoire. The songs span the decades, from the 1920s to the 2000s, in arrangements by many of my wonderful musical collaborators over the years. The album features the musicians whom I consider my musical family.”
Elaine performs with her all star regular trio, featuring
Barry Green – piano,
Simon Thorpe - double bass and
Bobby Worth – drums, plus a host of wonderful musical star guests and a few surprises.
AFASIC — a Voice for Life, is a parent led, national Charity that helps and supports, Young People and Families affected by speech, language and communication difficulties.
AFASIC aims to ensure that all children and young people affected get the support they need to enable them to reach their true potential.
7% of children & young people are affected by speech, language and communication disabilities.
This disability can have a devastating effect on the quality of a child“s life. Children are surrounded by language and for those who have difficulties acquiring language, their difficulties pervade most aspects of their everyday lives.
Their record of gaining employment is generally poor and awareness of this often-hidden disability is low.
With parent training schemes, help lines, web site and social media activity and a variety of courses, AFASIC aims to give these children and young people, the opportunity to reach their full potential, taking an active role in their community rather than face isolation.
AFASIC Voice for Life
020 7490 9410. Help line 0300 666 9410
Registered Charity: 1945617
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"…Delmar’s is obviously a remarkable talent, a deliciously mellow jazz sound that shimmers with clarity and resonance."
"Delmar’s vocals capture the heart and soul of the lyric"- Paul Vale, The Stage
"Her style is a mixture of Broadway musical punch and jazz-inflected subtlety. She has the belting defiance of a torch singer at times and the knowing raised eyebrow rasp of a blues artist, but also a hushed, confiding intimacy where it is appropriate, it is a blend that invites the widest possible audience.”
John Fordham, The Guardian
"Among the multitude of good jazz singers in Britain today, there is not one who can surpass Elaine Delmar..."
- Dave Gelly, Observer
Please join Elaine and her musicians in support of Afasic at this Sunday Night Charity Concert. You will be delighted you came.
"…Delmar’s is obviously a remarkable talent, a deliciously mellow jazz sound that shimmers with clarity and resonance."
"Delmar’s vocals capture the heart and soul of the lyric"- Paul Vale, The Stage
"Her style is a mixture of Broadway musical punch and jazz-inflected subtlety. She has the belting defiance of a torch singer at times and the knowing raised eyebrow rasp of a blues artist, but also a hushed, confiding intimacy where it is appropriate, it is a blend that invites the widest possible audience.”
John Fordham, The Guardian
"Among the multitude of good jazz singers in Britain today, there is not one who can surpass Elaine Delmar..."
- Dave Gelly, Observer
Please join Elaine and her musicians in support of Afasic at this Sunday Night Charity Concert. You will be delighted you came.
Doors @ 6.30pm
Music @ 8pm.
Tickets £40
Elaine Delmar and her trio plus invited musical guests, together with the concert promoter, JBGB Events and the host venue owners, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, are generously providing their services at no charge to Afasic.