Thank you for registering for the 2025 Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition.  

You are to record 3 audio only tunes in your preferred key. 

Contestants will then select three (3) songs from Ella’s Harold Arlen collection:

 

• World on a String

• That Old Black Magic

• Let’s Fall in Love

• My Shining Hour

• Blues in the Night

• Stormy Weather
   

When you are finished recording, please email programdirector@bluesalley.org to receive a dropbox link to upload the tracks to.  For this round only audio tracks will be accepted.  Please separate the submissions into 3 separate tracks.  The deadline for submitting the tracks is January 31, 2025 at Noon Eastern Standard Time. 

After that the judges will begin evaluating the submissions and the finalists will be announced in mid March 2025.  If you become a finalist you will record videos of the 3 tunes for the final round of evaluations. The deadline for the video submissions of the finalists will be March 27, 2025. 

The winner will be announced on April 26, 2025 at the Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition event in Washington, DC.