She was the first lady of jazz. The woman who used her voice like an instrument. Her musical companion Dizzy Gillespie once described her: "You can't look that far. Her talent is like the horizon: the closer you get to it, the further away it gets." Now the songs of Ella meet the songs and standards of Count Basie.

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It's hard to believe: in May 2025, the jazz festival will take place in the Tischlerei for the 5th time and illustrious programmes and stars of the jazz scene will join forces. Experience Handel's music as the perfect template for improvised jazz (5, 6 May). The fantastic guitarist Josho Stephan plays a tribute to Django Reinhardt (7, 8 May), the unforgettable songs that originated on the Motown Records label are interpreted by Worthy Davis on 9 May and Mette Nadja Hansen lends her voice and bends her knee to the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald and The Count (10, 11 May).