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...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...
...At Star Billiards, a brightly lit cue sports venue in the Workers Cultural Palace of Shanghai’s Changning District, a scandal unfolding several thousand miles away feels uncomfortably close to home....
...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 Lord Mayor is accompanied by 150 floats and 200 horses on a three-mile parade. November 9; further information here Christmas at Kew The annual festive light show for all the family....
...Winehouse’s childhood home lies seven miles to the north of Camden Square, in the suburb of Southgate....
...Earlier this week I stopped off for coffee in Johannesburg with Ronnie Kasrils. The 84-year-old is a legendary firebrand in the anti-apartheid movement....
...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....
...His Lamb is raspy-voiced, not a million miles away from the actor Trevor Howard towards the end of his career....
...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....
...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’s’ is on BBC4 on November 15 at 9pm...
...Now I paint in my own studio, which is a converted 19th-century workers’ cottage about a mile from my house. I walk through the forest, get some inspiration, and then paint....
...“We’re seeing some absolutely massive amounts of online viewership,” said Miles Pearce, commercial director at World Snooker, which runs global tournaments for the sport....
...Ronnie Campbell, a northern Labour MP for 32 years, recalled his decades down the pit as “a hard slog”. “The conditions could be brilliant if you knew the pit....
...(“I remember Ronnie,” says Benson, of the club’s founder. “He was very strict!”)...
...During his last weeks alive, Chatah had been in negotiations with the Iranian regime on Hizbollah, according to his son, Ronnie....
...At this full first-house gig, his Ronnie Scott’s debut, the 80-year-old said not a word and, often seated, directed his band by occasionally nudging his elbows, nodding his head and raising his palms....
...The Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander billed his week-long Ronnie Scott’s residency as the “Harlem-Kingston Express”....
...Bill Evans first gained widespread notice for the impressionist subtleties he contributed to Miles Davis’s 1959 album Kind of Blue — a cover of “So What”, that album’s opening track, appears here....
...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....
...Like most new movements in jazz, the current wave has roots in the past, and the loose form, electronic textures and underground pulse of this performance had echoes of Miles Davis’s 1970 album Bitches Brew...
...The opening two numbers in Chick Corea’s spellbinding second-house set formed a tribute to Miles Davis — a musician, said Corea, who could “take a showtune from the Thirties or Forties, put his signature...
...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....
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