Friday Night is Music Night celebrating the music & life of Ella Fitzgerald at Hackney Empire,

 

BBC Radio 2 Friday Night Is Music Night Presented by and Starring Clare Teal,  with Emma Kershaw, Mica Paris, Louise Marshall  and  The BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Richard Balcombe.

Looking forward to another great ‘Friday night is Music night’ where we celebrate Ella’s phenomenal career, from her earliest recordings with Chick Webb, through her meeting with the great Norman Granz recording the ‘Songbook’ series (with the likes of Nelson Riddle and Billy May, Paul Weston, Buddy Bregman and Duke Ellington) onto her work with Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson.