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...This gig, with French brothers Anthony and Davy Honnet on Hammond B3 organ and drums, put Benjamin’s sax centre stage. “We gonna have some fun?”...
...Ronnie Scott’s cleared the stage of its grand piano and the bar area of its seating for this steamy and uplifting full-house gig....
...Goldings’ long lines on Hammond organ have surprising angular edges while hints of distortion add grit to funky riffs....
...As in his recent Ronnie Scott’s residency, Elling reworked “Little Drummer Boy” into a transcendent celebration of rhythm....
...Lewis, who played London’s Ronnie Scott’s club in February, still performs “Wade in the Water” when he tours....
...Smith, the complete jazz organist, then returned to his Hammond for a climactic finale of “Play it Back”. ronniescotts.co.uk...
...Supported by the Hammond organ powerhouse Joey DeFrancesco and drummer Byron “Wookie” Landham, Sanborn zipped through a set of steamy ballads, urgent shuffles and life-affirming blues....
...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....
...After a suitably funky overture here – each terse blast on the Hammond the sonic equivalent of a raised eyebrow asking, “How cool are you?”...
...At the start, though, it was pure Hammond as a solitary organist impressively reincarnated the spirit of Jimmy Smith....
...Coinciding with the release of a new album, Mouvements, Lagrène has plugged in the electric, trading a violin and double bass accompaniment for drum kit, saxophone and Hammond organ in the process....
...Sir, Reading Alex Newman’s review of the Biréli Lagrène concert at Ronnie Scott’s (“Biréli Lagrène”, September 13), I began to wonder whether we had witnessed the same performance....
...Organist Reuben Wilson upgraded organ-jazz and scored a 1968 hit with an instrumental cover of “On Broadway” – an acid-jazz classic, it was played at Ronnie’s as a second-set rabble-rouser....
...Each solo flowed with lean-cut lines that hummed with tension over the compulsive throb of Hammond B3 bass pedals walking compulsively underneath. Martino’s current trio does more than support....
...Last year’s highlight visit to Ronnie Scott’s was with an orthodox acoustic quintet, and this performance similarly featured breathtaking cadenzas, unaccompanied torrents of notes and high-pitched squeaks...
...secretary-general, the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Scheme LIEUTENANT, LVO Virginia Carington, assistant master of the household to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall Margaret Hammond...
...() Ronnie Scott’s Brit Jazz Fest runs until August 14, www.ronniescotts.co.uk...
...The rhythmic kernel of drummer Alan Evans and brother Neal – he plays keyboard bass and Hammond organ simultaneously – get the basics while avoiding the clichés....
...Ronnie Cuber took frontline duties on baritone sax, riffing midway between raucous holler and jazzy invention – his gentle delivery of “Georgia” was a highlight....
...Additional reporting by Ed Hammond....
...Some idea of the variety on offer came from the BBC Radio 3 late night launch party held at Ronnie Scott’s....
...There is a certain symmetry to the trumpeter Guy Barker presenting his Mozart-themed Amadeus Project at Ronnie Scott’s jazz club....
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