Elaine Delmar Summer Joy

Elaine Delmar, our most beautiful, stylish, evergreen jazz singer and multiple award winner, returns to Dean Street, with her long-established favourite trio - plus guest Alex Garnett, for this start of the weekend Friday lunchtime concert “Dose of Summer Joy” concert.

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.

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.”

""Among the multitude of good jazz singers in Britain today, there is not one who can surpass Elaine Delmar..." " - Dave Gelly, Observer