For today's Global Hit we meet Italian jazz singer Roberta Gambarini. She's in her late thirties. And jazz has always been a part of her life. This is how Gambarini describes what her home was like, growing up in Turin, Italy.

GAMBARINI: "The first thing you will smell would probably be lasanga made by my mom who's the best cook in the world. The things you would see would be a turntable and a lot of vinyl records. A lot of jazz from the 40s and 50s. That was the soundtrack of my childhood. That's the music that was on in my household."

This song by Duke Ellington is just one of the jazz standards Roberta Gambarini would hear in her home in Italy.

Now, Roberta Gambarini has a new jazz album of her own. It's called "You Are There." She performs all the tunes with jazz pianist Hank Jones. He's a jazz legend who performed with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

But Gambarini says -- despite his legendary status -- Jones never made her feel like she didn't belong.

GAMBARINI: "He's very gracious and has a wonderful self-effacing way. He puts people at ease. I was tremendously intimidated at first, but he was joking and very, very nice."

"The choice of the song, like all the songs, was very spontaneous. We just sat beside one another. I had a stool sitting next to the piano. You're probably even hearing the stool creek. I hope not, but one time Hank Jones sneezed."

"Everybody says, "you sing Lush Life? What a difficult tune." It is difficult, but the beauty of it and the right-ness of it, every is set up to take you by the hand and bring you through the journey. So, if you really give up to that and surrender to that the song will wash through you."