SWINGING SUNDAY Liane Carroll and Claire Martin

Liane Carroll  & Claire Martin, voted best singers in the British Jazz Awards 2016 & 2015, come together to present this Centenary tribute to the wonderful, unique performer that was Ella Fitzgerald.

Ella was the most popular female jazz singer  for more than half a century. She won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra.

Liane Carroll is one of the UK’s greatest  singer/pianists, who with her infectious personality, delivers Entertainment with a capital “E”

“One of the most stylistically flexible pianists around, with a marvellous, slightly husky singing voice” (The Observer) and Her “Seaside” album,  won CD of the year at the 2015 British Jazz awards.

Claire Martin is an established tour de force on the UK jazz scene winning the British Jazz Awards seven times  and receiving an OBE in 2011 for her Services to Jazz.

Claire has released 20 must have CD’s  and performed all over the world with her trio, working extensively with the late Sir Richard Rodney Bennett in an intimate cabaret duo setting. Claire opened the 2015 London Jazz Festival and is a regular soloist with major orchestras.

Tickets for a spectacular, unique double header concert that will close this years EFG London Jazz Festival – Swinging Sunday at St John’s Smith Square – will go on sale at a discounted price to JBGB supporters from Monday 3rd July and then on general booking sale from Monday 10th July.

To sign up to the JBGB Events newsletter for priority booking and discounted tickets please visit:

JBGB Events