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...Mick Jagger cavorted in a corner of his living-room as though in a stadium and Ronnie Wood played a charismatic solo in what seemed to be a landing by a staircase....
...The evening ended with an unexpected Nat King Cole medley....
...Vocal collective Urban Flames strayed into hip-hop, Corinne Bailey Rae floated through Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” and there were tributes to Nat King Cole and Stevie Wonder....
...This return gig at Ronnie Scott’s featured original guitarist Russell Malone and new pianist Donald Vega (founding member Mulgrew Miller died from a stroke in May)....
...He will be playing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London from August 14-17...
...Some light relief came with a delicious rendition of Cole Porter’s “You’re the Top”....
...And at this gig, this remarkable feat was accomplished with a first set limited to Cole Porter and two original blues and a second focused on a single John Coltrane album, Crescent....
...The first BluesFest London, taking place this week across the capital, is the brainchild of Leo Green, former artistic director of Ronnie Scott’s and now a DJ on JazzFM....
...That must have slipped the mind of JJB, whose chief executive, Chris Ronnie, was dismissed in 2009....
...Little Giant: The Story of Johnny Griffin By Mike Hennessey Northway Publications £19.99, 246 pages The great American saxophonist Johnny Griffin recently celebrated his 80th birthday by fronting a band at Ronnie...
...They were joined by Ronnie Dickenson, a former programme controller with ATV....
...I travelled twice to the US and once to Spain for magnificent six-day tours and especially warm thanks are due to Newcomb Cole, Don Healy and William Fforde for their organising skills....
...Malone’s tone and attack recall Oscar Moore, guitarist with the Nat “King” Cole trio, but with added harmonic adventure even when picking and strumming four-to- the-bar....
...Ronnie: The Autobiography By Ronnie Wood Pan Macmillan £20, 358 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Roguish anecdotes tumble from Ronnie Wood’s autobiography: horseplay with Rod Stewart and Keith Richards, a wife-swapping...
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