The Jazz Centre UK today hosts Elaine Delmar, one of the Britain’s most celebrated jazz vocalists. She has graced the JCUK with performances twice previously, and opened our recent Caribbean Influence on British Jazz exhibition. Today she sits down in our media room to discuss her life in music with Digby Fairweather. The daughter of bandleader Leslie ‘Jiver’ Hutchinson, Elaine began singing with her father’s band at the age of sixteen and has since built up a well-deserved reputation as a consummate professional. Her stellar career stretches back to the 1960s when she recorded various albums for one of her early champions, producer Denis Preston of Lansdowne Records. The first was an EP titled A Swinging Chick featuring the wonderful talent of Victor Feldman. Her career has included stage performances in the West End and on Broadway, and on film (Ken Russell’s Mahler). Elaine’s popular appearances at the world-famous Ronnie Scott’s Club…