Big Band Special - 31/08/2009

Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band in session with conductor and arranger Jorg Keller. They are joined by guest singer, Christine Tobin, who performs new arrangements of songs by Leonard Cohen including Take This Waltz, Dance Me To The End Of Love and A Thousand Kisses Deep. Jorg Keller is conductor of the Hamburg based NDR Big Band and one of Europe's most highly rated arrangers. This is the first performance of these new arrangements written for Christine Tobin (winner of the best vocalist award at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards).