Elaine Delmar
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
Lexical entries
- John Chilton , Who Is Who in British Jazz London 2005; ISBN 978-0826472342
Web links
- Elaine Delmar web presence
- Elaine Delmar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Elaine Delmar at Discogs (English)
- Entry (Internet Broadway Database)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coleridge Goode & Roger Cotterrell, bass lines: A Life in Jazz . London: Northway Publications 2002, p. 106.
- ^ John Fordham: Wynton Marsalis: Barbican, London . The Guardian . June 20, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
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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 |