Cabaret chanteuse/jazz pianist, Daryl Sherman, a frequent American visitor to the UK (above with Digby Fairweather and Dominic Ashworth) will be making her annual foray to these shores beginning 1st July at the Cleethorpes Jazz Festival and concluding with an appearance at Norwich’s The Green Man on 17th July, before going off to the Edinburgh Jazz Festival on July 20 and 21. Lucky Londoners will be able to catch her at the Boisdale in Canary Wharf on 9 July and on the following night she’ll be holding forth at the Pizza Express Dean Street.

No doubt she’ll be performing songs from her recently released CD on the Audiofile label Mississippi Belle, Cole Porter in the Quarter (2011) which includes a cracking quartet of Nawlins” natives. Highlights from which are rare and less rare Cole Porter gems such as Rosalie, Get Out of Town, Tale of the Oyster and the title song. Book now or regret later.