Historic Grant Avenue

The Gift of Jazz Centennial Concert Series presents Ella and Frank’s Big Band Love Letter to Nelson Riddle Presented by: Doug Barta (vocals), Dawn Clement (vocals), with the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra Nelson Riddle's arrangements backed some of the greatest popular artists of the 1950s and 1960s including Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and Peggy Lee, but most notably Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Initially, Sinatra was reluctant to work with Riddle, but soon realized how fresh and unique Riddle’s approach was. The…