Anything but Standard: The Music of Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson
Monday | May 19 2025 | 7:30 pm
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT?
Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring vocalists Nia Drummond and Gabrielle Stravelli, and pianist Willerm Delisfort. With Patrick Ti O'Leary, bass & Mark McClean, drums.
Host Rob Kapilow and a remarkable group of performers celebrate “The First Lady of Song” and one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, exploring how standards survive and thrive as they’re reinvented by each generation. Hear original versions of well-known songs followed by virtuosic interpretations by Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson, and see how tradition gets passed on through reimaginations by Oscar and Ella that are anything but standard.
