Swinging jazz and classics from Billie to Ella and Peggy Lee to Julie London

‘The Great Ladies of Jazz’

A host of London’s top vocalists celebrate the giants of jazz singing, from Billie to Ella, from Peggy Lee to Julie London, from Nina to Sarah Vaughan. A night of swinging jazz and classic songs accompanied by the Alex Webb trio.

A night of swinging jazz and classic songs accompanied by the Alex Webb trio.

Anna Ross

Born in London and raised in Newcastle, singer-songwriter Anna Ross has spent the last decade as Duran Duran’s backing vocalist since 2005, singing to tens of thousands of people in sold-out arena tours around the world.

Anna is performing her favourites from the jazz and American songbook canon from the 30’s and 40’s originally sung by the greats, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billy Holiday. She delivers these with a compelling vocal emotional and soulful integrity that has been engaging audiences around the world since the beginning of her career.

Alex Webb

Alex Webb is a songwriter, arranger and pianist. His songs have been recorded by jazz singers China Moses, Mina Agossi, Sandra Nkake, Liane Carroll, Allan Harris, Alexia Gardner and Alexander Stewart, among others. His show ‘Cafe Society Swing’ has enjoyed several theatre runs in London and one in New York, where he received the New York Times ‘Critic’s Pick’.

“Here is a writer not content with peddling jazz covers but a composer hell-bent on writing some new jazz standards” – Blues & Soul

‘’Webb is a writer not content with peddling jazz covers but a composer hell-bent on writing some new jazz standards’’– From Blues & Soul