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...When Miuccia Prada initially encountered Theaster Gates at the jazz club Ronnie Scott’s in London, Gates was performing on stage with his band The Black Monks. “I thought, my God!...
...Pianist Stan Tracey was playing in the Ted Heath band at the time — his seven-year tenure as house pianist at the recently opened Ronnie Scott’s began the following year....
...In between, the band reconstructed Monk’s “Evidence” and concentrated on newer work in a performance that rarely paused....
...American saxophonist Johnny Griffin delivers a swaggering original, “The Leopard Walks”, but his throwaway cover of Thelonious Monk’s “Blue Monk” is slightly too slow....
...In contrast, Thelonious Monk’s epic ballad “Round About Midnight” is played by Evans as though the night has just begun. ★★★★☆ ‘Evans in England’ is released by Resonance Records...
...Jean Toussaint’s following set was based on the CD Brother Raymond, launched at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...Monk had never sounded like this before. ronniescotts.co.uk...
...Three numbers in, Garnett introduced Jimmy Heath’s “A Sound for Sore Ears” as once being a favourite theme tune for Ronnie Scott....
...We meet on the morning before that first night (of two) at Ronnie Scott’s....
...Jazz musicians with high-end commercial credits playing creatively are a regular treat at Ronnie Scott’s; ones promising to echo the universal beat of freedom and solidarity are somewhat rarer....
...His 1980s performances are the stuff of club legend, and his band’s intricate rhythms, flamboyant brass and technical panache have made him a Ronnie Scott’s must-see ever since....
...The set ended with the only cover, Monk’s “Mysterioso” transformed by romance and new rhythmic inflections. Bley’s strengths are melodic flair and compositional rigour....
...The set ended with Thelonious Monk’s “Straight No Chaser”, fast, furious and voiced, as on the album, at the edge of dissonance....
...It’s a fair bet that this was the first time that the theme from The Lone Ranger had been played at Ronnie Scott’s....
...It’s been 46 years since US saxophonist, poet and playwright Archie Shepp appeared at Ronnie Scott’s as a firebrand member of the jazz new wave....
...The set picked up with an intense, hard-edged reading of Monk’s “Epistrophy” that preserved the rhythmic intensity of the original....
...This gig honoured one of Anderson’s key influences, Sarah Vaughan: there were swooping low notes laden with vibrato and references to the Vaughan back catalogue, with Ellington, Monk and Sondheim’s “Send...
...Three years later she won the Thelonius Monk Institute International Jazz Competition. She debuted in the UK at Ronnie Scott’s in 2014 and sold out a show during this year’s London Jazz Festival....
...A soprano sax eulogy followed, then a burst of improv slowly morphed into Monk’s “52nd Street Theme”. A neat idea, but here somewhat mannered in its delivery, and the performance felt a little flat....
...Its frontman was Michael Mwenso who — until Marsalis lured him to JALC in 2012 — had run the late-show gigs at Ronnie Scott’s and been a vivacious presence on London’s jazz scene....
...The programme opened with Ronnie Scott’s musical director James Pearson leading a piano trio through the 1959 composition “Little Klunk” – written, we were told, four months before Ronnie Scott opened his...
...Highlight was Hargrove’s breathy mid-set reading of Monk’s “Ask Me Now”....
...But the set ended on a low, with drummer Match unable to cope with the open spring of Monk’s “Straight no Chaser”. It evolved into a set-piece bluesy bash, but the damage was done....
...But the prize was seeing the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk in the flesh....
...Wynton Marsalis doesn’t have much truck with amplification, and played the entire first house of his short Ronnie Scott’s residency off-mic at the level of an animated conversation....
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