VIMALA Rowe and the Ian Smith Trio are singing and playing the Ella Fitzgerald songbook and other jazz classics at Sladers Yard in West Bay on Saturday.

Vimala will sing Ella Fitzgerald with a band made up of some of Britain’s leading jazz musicians in a night of jazz classics with trumpeter Ian Smith’s highly entertaining and super cool commentary.

In her early teens Vimala Rowe left England for the Far East where she quickly established herself as a vocalist with the successful rap band TKO and then as a solo artist, writing and recording a hit album which included guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel.

She then spent a year studying Hindustani Classical vocals in Nagpur India, which profoundly influenced her future style.

She has gone on to establish herself on the London jazz scene as a remarkable live performer, appearing with such luminaries as John Etheridge, Bobby Wellins, Jonathan Gee and others.

Ian Smith has played trumpet with talents as varied as Gwyneth Herbert, Hank Wangford, Alan Barnes and Michael Horowitz.

He has lectured on Modern and Renaissance Poetry at universities on both sides of the Atlantic while also playing jazz regularly with some of the leading players in Britain and Europe. He has performed at leading jazz festivals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4.

Ian and Alan Barnes recently wrote and performed in an acclaimed Radio 4 drama, Blood Count, about the final recording of Duke Ellington.