Remembering Ella (Taster) - BBC Radio 2

Leo Green and special guests celebrate Ella Fitzgerald’s golden voice, on the centenary of her birth.

Dame Cleo Laine, Patti Austin, Mica Paris, Adrian Dunbar and Imelda May chat to Leo about their love for The First Lady of Song and each choose an ‘Essential Ella’ track, as does Ella’s son Ray Brown Jnr.

You’ll hear classics like ‘Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye’, ‘Manhattan’, ‘Mack The Knife’ and Ella’s ‘Summertime’ duet with Louis Armstrong, alongside plenty more glorious records from throughout her long career and across the many musical genres in which she excelled.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 2 - 25th April 2017