Speak Love – The Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass Story

The Heywood Brothers are bringing a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass to St Albans Library on Friday 13 November. The show is called Speak Love – The Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass Story, and it focuses on the music and the collaborations of the legendary singer and the guitarist.

It's an evening of live jazz that works its way from dreamy instrumentals to popular classics, so you'll hear the more atmospheric, stripped-back side of their work alongside the songs most people recognise. The two names at the centre of it are Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most celebrated voices in jazz history, and Joe Pass, the virtuoso guitarist who recorded several albums with her. The show looks at their music and the way they worked together.

The evening is presented by The Heywood Brothers, who are the ones performing. They describe it as an intimate and imaginative evening of live jazz, and the set moves through those instrumentals and popular classics, tracing the music and the collaborations of Fitzgerald and Pass.

It's held at St Albans Library, Level 2, The Maltings, St Albans, AL1 3JQ. Doors open at 19:00, and the concert runs from 19:15 to 21:15. Tickets are £12 per person for those aged 16 and over.