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...At this first house of a two-night run, trumpeter Josh Evans was taken ill with a stomach bug....
...The solo performances begin with 1958’s bewitching “Peace Piece” and end with the equally beguiling “Letter to Evan” recorded at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in 1980....
...Ronnie Haynes, 26, is one person caught in this trap. She juggles studying for her degree with caring for her two-year-old son....
...This double CD release of a fan’s recording captures the late pianist at London’s Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in 1969 — the muffled but unmistakable tones of the club’s owner can be heard introducing bassist...
...Yet author Sebastian Faulks and Pop Idol winner Will Young conjure different associations to Ronnie Kray and Charles Salvador — better known as Charles Bronson, dubbed “Britain’s most violent prisoner”....
...Sanborn recalls once coming offstage with Bowie at Madison Square Garden, flying overnight to Milan and then driving to the Umbria jazz festival to play with the Gil Evans Orchestra....
...José James began his Thursday night Ronnie Scott’s set with a moment’s silence for those killed in Paris, and ended with an a cappella reading of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”, made famous by Billie...
...Contrast, for example, the Art Pepper recordings, or any by Gil Evans, with the “remastered” 180 gram recordings of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland band at Ronnie Scott’s....
...Revis and Calderazzo have been with Marsalis’s quartet since the late 1990s, but drummer Evan Sherman is a recent recruit. Though just 21, he fired up the band with a precise snap....
...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....
...There were breakdowns and slow burns, repeated riffs that shifted beat for an extra kick and Neal Evans’ Hammond organ swells that raised the roof. And the band has solo firepower to spare....
...He toured and recorded regularly, wrote copiously and started performing with such new-generation free musicians as Evan Parker and John Stephens....
...Marc Johnson was the bass player, alongside drummer Pat LaBarbera, in pianist Bill Evans’ last rhythm section; the legendary jazz impressionist died in 1980....
...1973-2010 “Total wage” method Rank/Manager 1 Bob Paisley 2 Alex Ferguson 3 Kenny Dalglish 4 Arsène Wenger 5 Rafael Benítez 6 Bobby Robson 7 Gerard Houllier 8 Steve Parkin 9 Dave Mackay 10 Roy Evans...
...“It seemed like he’d deliberately made [his style] rougher, to get away from being stereotyped as Bill Evans’ drummer.” Potter has also been a Dave Holland regular for more than 10 years....
...Though hardly a jazz absentee, Joseph’s headline spot midway through Ronnie Scott’s week-long celebration of the piano trio marked a welcome return to the spotlight....
...Krasno’s precise phrasing held true at all speeds and at the quietest volume; Evans spun blues riffs over ever thickening chords and crashing organ crescendos....
...The last time saxophonist and doyen of free jazz Evan Parker played unfettered at Ronnie Scott’s was as an experimental Young Turk taking advantage of the late club owner’s largesse....
...By 1967 Ronnie Scott’s had outgrown Gerrard Street and moved to its current Frith Street address. Bookings ranged from the Bill Evans trio to the Buddy Rich big band....
...“Good Citizen” had an underlying Caribbean lilt and “Very Early”, a waltz by the pianist Bill Evans, captured the composer’s looping impressionism....
...Titles like “Duke’s Smoke”, “Rocky Mount” – named after Monk’s birthplace – and “One for Gil”, a homage to composer Gil Evans, pay respect to this lineage while avoiding pastiche....
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