Ella Radio - Cocktail Jazz

Ella Radio pays homage to the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, and serves up cocktail jazz with a German accent. It's the kind of station you put on when you're mixing martinis or winding down after work. The playlist leans heavily on vocal jazz - think Chet Baker's crooning, Billie Holiday's melancholy, and of course, Ella herself. But there's also room for instrumental cool jazz and bossa nova, with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto making regular appearances. The DJs speak German between tracks, but the music is universal. The stream quality is solid at 192 kbps, so those brass tones come t…