THE music of one of the best female jazz singers will hit the Rothes Halls, Glenrothes, this February.

Seonaid Aitken celebrates the songs of Ella Fitzgerald in her centenary year with The Groove Merchant Big Band on Thursday February 9.

Ella Fitzgerald was the greatest vocalist the jazz world has ever heard.

Her extraordinary diction, timing, sense of swing and all round joie de vivre meant that her versions of hundreds of great songs were the definitive ones. The songbooks of Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Rogers and Hart, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin had no finer interpreter.

In today’s cluttered world, the beauty of hearing these great songs performed with the same clarity and freshness is an unalloyed pleasure.

Seonaid Aitken is the perfect one to celebrate Ella and the songs she made famous. Seonaid fronts the Big Band that’s turning all the critics’ heads.

Seonaid is a versatile award-winning violinist from Fife. She attended the junior department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow then moved to London to study for her Bachelor of Music Honours degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She played in the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and went on to lead their semi-professional orchestra Camerata Scotland performing in the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall and Buckingham Palace.