DIVA Jazz Orchestra will pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald Christmas album at JALC this weekend (photo by Lawrence Sumulong)
Who: The DIVA Jazz Orchestra with vocalists Camille Thurman, Christine Fawson, and Sue Giles
What: Holiday concerts
Where: Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway & 60th St., fifth floor, 212-258-9595
When: December 18-20, $40-$45 cover charge, 7:30 & 9:30
Why: The twelve-piece, New York-based, all-woman DIVA Jazz Orchestra, led by drummer Sherrie Maricle, pays tribute to the fifty-fifth anniversary of Ella Fitzgerald’s Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas by playing selections from that classic album, which features such seasonal favorites as “Jingle Bells,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” and “White Christmas.”