Saturday 19 July 2025 at 7pm - 10:30pm

Samara Joy

Royal Albert Hall

BBC Proms presents: The Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy

A No. 1 album and a double Grammy-win in 2023 put Samara Joy on the map, establishing the young American artist as ‘the next jazz sensation’ and ‘a legend in the making’, regularly compared to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

Fresh from another double win at this year’s Grammys, Joy makes a much-anticipated Proms debut, introducing audiences to her electric combination of youthful energy and old-soul musical style with classic songs and unique twists on instrumental classics from across jazz and its fringes, from bossa nova to the Great American Songbook. She salutes figures including Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and Oscar Peterson.

Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer

Programme

Samara Joy

 Samara Joy Octet 

BBC Concert Orchestra

Miho Hazama conductor

There will be one interval