Elaine Delmar

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Elaine Delmar (1962)

Elaine Delmar (* 13. September 1939 in Harpenden as Elaine Hutchinson ) is a British jazz singer and actress.

Live and act

Delmar, the daughter of trumpeter Jiver Hutchinson , received piano lessons from the age of six. At 14, she appeared as a pianist in the Children's Hour from BBC on; later she performed with her father's band in American Army clubs. In the mid-1950s she was with Coleridge Goodes group The Dominoes for a month in Bad Harzburg . From 1959 she appeared regularly on the radio and in the same year gave a concert at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival , before appearing in solo programs across Europe. Subsequently she also worked as a theater actress and in television. She had a role in Ken Russell's film Mahler (1974).

Delmar was then, even through the 1980s, mainly engaged in musicals , including in the lead role in Bubbling Brown Sugar , but increasingly appeared on cruise ships and in jazz clubs. Since the 1990s she was engaged in shows such as The Ella Fitzgerald Song Book or Thank You, Mr. Gershwin , but also worked at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club . In 2010 she brought Wynton Marsalis to the stage of London's Barbican Center with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra . In 2013 she received the APPJAG Special Award as part of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards for her services to British jazz .

Discography

  • 1996: S'Wonderful: Live at Ronnie Scott's
  • 1998: Nobody Else But Me

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coleridge Goode & Roger Cotterrell, bass lines: A Life in Jazz . London: Northway Publications 2002, p. 106.
  2. ^ John Fordham: Wynton Marsalis: Barbican, London . The Guardian . June 20, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Delmar, Elaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutchinson, Elaine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Harpenden