Elaine Delmar’s 'Speak Low'

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 PizzaExpress Jazz Club with the Mark Nightingale Big Band. In 2023 she won Best Vocalist at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards.