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Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion, Ronnie Scott's - review

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[Evening Standard] - By rights, a lifetime of booze, drugs, fights, car crashes and wild women should have left Ginger Baker a wreck, but apparently not so. The Lewisham-born drum icon's once-red hair is receding and grey but he can still beat out jazz and afro-rhythms

Jazz breaking news: Unity Band Debut Album Confirmed For Release

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[Jazzwise magazine] with Terence Blanchard's storming band of the day and joins the great guitarist along with another new recruit in star saxophonist Chris Potter, recently in formidable form with his own band during Jazzwise To The Power Of 15 at Ronnie Scott's.

Google News: Dovedale matches arts with beauty

[Buxton Advertiser] - And on Saturday night the Festival repeats its hugely successful cabaret format with a scintillating concert of jazz, blues and improvisation by violinist Lizzie Ball and pianist James Pearson, director of music at Ronnie Scott's, with their very own

Simpson's actor Harry Shearer reveals secrets of coping with ...

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[Daily Mail] - 'I'd be packing out Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London but when I got home I'd cry, then fall asleep through the strain of keeping up the pretence all day,' she says. 'My mother battled with clinical depression and anxiety disorder that was so

IoS letters, emails & online postings (29 April 2012)

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[The Independent] - A parallel deprecating quip from another musical genre is one I first heard from the late jazz musician Ronnie Scott. What's the difference between a banjo and an onion? When you chop up a banjo, nobody cries. Alan Bunting Harpenden, Hertfordshire The

Jazz notes

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[The Press, York] - A meeting with Gilad Atzmon at Ronnie Scott's has led to two acclaimed albums and the Gillespie Atzmon Band comes to Wakefield Jazz tonight ( or go to wakefieldjazz.org). The award-winning Jazz In The Spa mainly offers traditional jazz and

Saxophonist at forefront of UK jazz is in Peterborough

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[Peterborough Evening Telegraph] - Derek Nash has been a member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and is also a member of the Ronnie Scott's Blues Explosion. But it will be with his new acoustic quartet that he entertains at The Great Northern Hotel, in Station Road

Google News: Yazz Ahmed – Finding My Way Home

[Jazzwise magazine] - The other half of the recording resonates with the music gleaned from her inspiring grandfather the trumpeter Terry Brown, a member of the original Dankworth 7, and a Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes group sideman. The 1950s modal era is a particular focus

Peter Bills: Soaring success built on humble beginnings

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[New Zealand Herald] - By Peter Bills Michael Watt set his sights on owning Ronnie Scott's Soho jazz club when he was still a teenager. Life really got interesting, especially when I went to Europe. Probably it is character-forming but at the time you don't know that.

Pat Martino, Ronnie Scott's, London

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[Financial Times] - By Mike Hobart Pat Martino delivers classic club-jazz guitar with a warm sound, personal voice and a stinging upper register. Each note is etched with precision and purpose, reflecting roots going back to the first flowering of rock and roll – born in

Guardian: This week's cultural highlights: Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad and ...

[The Guardian (blog)] - Ronnie Scott's, London W1 ( ), Monday and Tuesday. Pop Tricky If you're going to revive anything from the 90s, it might as well be Tricky's astonishing debut album Maxinquaye, which he's performing in full. Tour ends Saturday, Manchester

Soul'd Out Festival 2012: Snarky Puppy back from the international ...

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[Oregon Music News] - A Ronnie Scott's gig would be great but maybe hard to book. Actually Cargo is two or three times bigger than Ronnie's. It's like 500 cap by 50 or something and it was sold out a month before we played. It's actually more suitable, I mean Ronnie's has a

Guardian: Monkey goes to ... Andy Allan's memorial service

[The Guardian (blog)] - A jazz trio played at memorial service and guests moved on to Ronnie Scott's in Soho for post-match drinks, which continued late into the evening. A fitting tribute to Allan, one of the handful of executives who ran ITV back when it was a proper

Google News: Gallery session for exceptional talent

[This is North Devon] - At just 22 years of age, he has performed at some of Europe's most prestigious venues and festivals such as the Barbican, Blue Note Milan, Pori Jazz Festival and Ronnie Scott's. Josh has played sax with luminaries such as Pee Wee Ellis, Jason Rebello

Jazz breaking news: Neneh Cherry surfaces with free jazz heroes ...

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[Jazzwise magazine] it's a platform for Cherry, absent from the high profile music scene of late, although in January she guested at a jazz benefit for the under threat Doncaster Youth Jazz Association at Ronnie Scott's, singing 'Think Twice' with Groove Armada.

Google News: Jazz link-up for South Yorkshire male voice choir

[The Star] - Mr Surman, who has played with the world's top jazz musicians, including Ronnie Scott and Stan Tracey, and was BBC's Instrumentalist of the Year in 2002, has been commissioned to write a contemporary work for the saxophone, piano and the choir.

Jazz groups turned rock 'n' roll on to the power of three

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[This is Somerset] - The trio was always a popular format in the jazz world and I was lucky enough to see the great Oscar Peterson Trio, with Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums on two occasions, firstly at Ronnie Scott's legendary London jazz club, and then a year

Google News: Inspirational pianist Geoff Eales bring jazz to Castle stage

[Northampton Chronicle & Echo] - He has also performed at many leading jazz clubs worldwide, from New York's Birdland to London's Ronnie Scott's. Geoff formed Isorhythm in and to celebrate his 60th birthday they toured the UK. Geoff appears for NCJazz at The Castle with

Google News: Plenty of Led but no zeds!

[Biggleswade Today] - She has performed at venues throughout the UK and especially in London, where Ronnie Scott's is just one of the clubs where she has appeared. Country, folk and pop songs will be in the offing at The Green Dragon in Upper Gravenhurst on Friday (April

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[This is Nottingham] - First on Monday at Mansfield's Il Rosso Italian Restaurant, Steve Fishwick (pictured) makes an appearance with local baritone saxophonist Tony Harper's Quintet then on Tuesday evening ex-Ronnie Scott front-liner for many years, Dick Pearce

Guardian: Michel Legrand – review

[The Guardian] - At Ronnie Scott's he croaks out a wonderfully melodramatic version of Windmills of Your Mind (in French) and scat-sings What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (in English) – but it's his prodigious piano skills that provide the focus.

Real Lives: Musical tribute to a King of the jazz and folk scene

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[Edinburgh Evening News] - A virtuoso at jazz guitar, jazz fiddle and traditional Scots fiddle, he played guitar at Ronnie Scott's club and The Savoy at the height of London's Jazz scene in the 60s. It was during this time he played guitar with Scottish Jazz legend Alex Shaw.

Experience the best teacher, and he has it

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[Winnipeg Free Press] - Since that run, which saw the teenager perform in celebrated jazz clubs like the Blue Note in New York City and Ronnie Scott's in London, Bonness has completed a music degree in the jazz studies department he's joining; studied in New York and Boston;

Jean Toussaint/Peter King, Kings Place, London

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[Financial Times] - King played at the opening night of the first Ronnie Scott club in when he was 19, and his alto sax has an airy trace in its lyrical, modernist palette. Compositional skills came later – the Bartók -inspired Janus was his first extended piece for

Google News: Estrella Acosta: una guajira en la capital de Holanda

[CUBAENCUENTRO.com] - Aclamada en los prestigiosos clubes Ronnie Scott (Londres) y SOB's (New York), en Holanda se ha convertido en referencia obligada de la música campesina cubana (Cuban country songs). Alma Guajira (eStar Records, 2006), CD de 13 composiciones en las

Rock of Ages: number one songs from this week in history - The ...

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[Liverpool Echo] - The saxophone solo was played by British jazz musician and club owner Ronnie Scott. This single was the last release by the band on Parlophone in the United Kingdom, where it reached number one, and Capitol Records in the United States

'It's just jazz'

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[Financial Times] - His recent sold-out shows at Ronnie Scott's, with his new acoustic quartet – a return to his sonic roots, he later told me – demonstrated a welter of fresh-minted detail, breathtaking energy and technical skill. Potter and his band peeled off layers of

Guardian: Blind date

[The Guardian] - Yep, Ronnie Scott's for jazz. He knew everybody in the room. And… did you kiss? No chemistry. And he didn't ask nicely. If you could change one thing about the evening, what would it be? To have cut out the starting-off-as-strangers chitchat.

Google News: Eye on Sports - Riley wraps it up

[New Philadelphia Times Reporter] - The nine guys going South are: Ronnie Scott, Larry Amicone, Howard Illig, Joe Earlywine, Bob Hile, Tim Roth, Harvey Johns, me, and the event coordinator and main sandbagger - Neil Putnam. Thanks again to all of you for reading my posts!

A love letter to Ronnie Scott's | Saturday Review | The Timeswww.thetimes.co.uk › article › a-love-letter-to-ronnie-scot...

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A love letter to Ronnie Scott's. A new documentary about the famous jazz club captures the atmosphere of this Soho institution, says Clive Davis.

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