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...Although the band members have worked together in high-profile bands — Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman and Terence Blanchard set the tone — this is a new project, and at times the band seemed to be feeling...
...Jean Toussaint’s following set was based on the CD Brother Raymond, launched at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...James “Blood” Ulmer was the guitarist who delivered the thrash in the late Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time band, and since then has immersed himself in the wayward harmonies and tonal vagaries of the classic...
...He repeated the exercise halfway through the intense second set with a spellbinding reshaping of Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman”....
...In the mid-1960s the city was awash with opportunities: when Davis heard him play at Ronnie Scott’s, his list of credits ranged from Roy Orbison and Lulu to John Dankworth and Coleman Hawkins....
...Bassist Dezron Douglas hinted at samba and then switched tack, there was a scattering of chords; then the evening’s first theme, Ornette Coleman’s bop-inspired “Bird Food”, played over a meaty contemporary...
...Then, early in the 1980s, came a series of appearances at Ronnie Scott’s club in Soho by American drummer Art Blakey, whose Jazz Messengers line-up including the Marsalis brothers Wynton and Branford....
...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....
...Steve Coleman’s mind-boggling intricacies and the sultry raga-based speed-freakery of John McLaughlin’s Shakti are immediate points of reference....
...The Friday launch of the London Jazz Festival routinely runs a grand-slam singers showcase, Jazz Voice, at The Barbican into a late-night taster menu at Ronnie Scott’s....
...The coup, though, was a late-addition booking for saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s quartet at the Royal Festival Hall. Coleman, now 81, remains committed to creative risk....
...Ornette Coleman introduced free jazz, John Coltrane modes and Michael Brecker and Kenny Garrett modern fusion....
...Glasper was using the Ronnie Scott’s gig to dry-run material for a forthcoming Blue Note recording, and was keen to explain the mechanics of his music....
...Anthony Coleman is charming as the boy Armstrong, capturing the street-savvy trumpeter’s ebullience and sense of justice to a T: as the capacity audience filed out, Coleman was spotted, still seated in the...
...Twice, and less successfully, Moran let whole tunes play – the 1980s dance hit “Ice Cream Castles”; Eddie Jefferson singing his lyrics to Coleman Hawkins’ renowned saxophone solo on “Body and Soul” – sporadically...
...Sometimes the subtle accelerations, awkward riffs and tonal contrasts were built in – Ornette Coleman’s round-the-houses “Tribes of New York”, Alice Coltrane’s morphing of a Protestant hymn into Eastern...
...another Indian entrepreneur, Ronnie Screwvala....
...But his core reputation rests on burnished trumpet, soulful delivery and ultra-sharp arrangements of small-group modern jazz, dished out generously over two effervescent sets at Ronnie Scott’s....
...heavyweights at Ronnie Scott’s marking the Soho club’s 50th anniversary....
...Benny Golson’s breathy tone, sensuous arpeggios and storytelling melodies stretch back to the swing era, when saxophone masters such as Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster seduced audiences with the sheer warmth...
...Ronnie Musgrove, the former Democratic governor of Mississippi, could beat Roger Wicker if there was an unprecedented turnout among African-American voters....
...Other Republican senators facing tougher than expected re-election fights include Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, Susan Collins in Maine, Gordon Smith inOregon, and Norm Coleman in Minnesota, who is running...
...Ronnie Chappell, BP’s US spokesman, insisted BP had completed a mechanical integrity test on well A-22....
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