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...Two dedications followed, “Ultimate Realities” for Angela Davis and “Beloved” for Toni Morrison....
...Guitarist John Scofield, one-time sideman to Miles Davis and with credits as long as your arm, applied his steely jazz eye to a bar-room repertoire and joyously rekindled the passion of his formative years...
...Her image was larger-than-life, a beehived composite of Betty Boop and Ronnie Spector magicked into being with a mascara wand and singular imagination. She was witty, clever, ribald and charismatic....
...At the late show on the opening night of a short residency at Ronnie Scott’s, his music became an immutable force that pushed soloists to the limit and had the audience rapt....
...In the years since, Ronnie’s has welcomed greats including Nina Simone, Miles Davis and China Moses, who gave an electrifying performance in December that had me dancing on (OK, by) our table....
...The 1972 session from Ronnie Scott’s was due to be issued on Columbia but shelved the following year when, Miles Davis apart, the label dropped its jazz roster....
...He makes a great Elvis: he looks the part, moves well and, perhaps wisely, lets country star Ronnie McDowell do the singing....
...And with the much-lauded Kris Davis on piano there are first forays into abstract electronica and the through-improvised sonics of free jazz....
...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!...
...When a 21-year-old Dave Holland got the call to join Miles Davis he was a Ronnie Scott’s regular with credits ranging from Lulu to experimental free jazz....
...‘Ronnie’s’ is on BBC4 on November 15 at 9pm...
...A specialist academy in Beijing, which opened in 2013 and was supported by former world champion Steve Davis, has propelled a host of younger players on to the global scene....
...(“I remember Ronnie,” says Benson, of the club’s founder. “He was very strict!”)...
...Scott’s phrasing is rooted in the tight, closely argued fluency that Miles Davis brought to up-tempo modal jazz....
...Instead, through his vast record collection, he revels in the music of his 1950s and 1960s youth: Miles Davis’ second run of musical magic, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Louis Armstrong....
...The Davis arrangement switches from Latin to swing, and, at first, that is how it was presented here....
...The sound of static and snatches of voices that filled Ronnie Scott’s conjured the tuning of a radio; muted trumpet evoked Miles Davis and swirls of keyboard signalled that a band was in play....
...And it was his mastery of keyboard timbre and rhythm that underpinned such 1980s Miles Davis classics as Tutu and Amandla....
...The muted balladry, pirouetting lines and pithy rhythmic stabs of the Miles Davis aesthetic are cornerstones of contemporary jazz trumpet, from crossover fusion to the avant-garde....
...David Davis, former Brexit secretary, and his former deputy Steve Baker have both estimated that around 40 Tory MPs will defy Mrs May....
...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....
...Like many Americans who play Ronnie Scott’s, Ben Williams followed up an easy-tempo opener with comments on the rush from airport to stage....
...The core is a modal modernism that conjures the classic bands of Art Blakey and acoustic Miles Davis....
...Both sets dipped into the songbook repertoire, had a showcase feature and ended with a clever rejig of the classic Miles Davis-written set closer, “The Theme”....
...Ahmed’s grandfather used to play trumpet with the John Dankworth Seven, Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott....
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