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...of Belgravia (Belgravia) 15 Eccleston Street, London SW1W 9LX Good for: A lively musical experience with plenty of audience participation encouraged Not so good for: A quiet tête-à-tête FYI: Jools Holland...
...I asked Ronnie Hughes, a former skipper I know, how he would describe the contemporary culture of the place. “Tourism,” he said. “Cafés.” Yet these villages, unlike many others, are doing well....
...This third instalment builds on the experienced foundation of Dave Holland’s bass and Terri Lyne Carrington’s drums....
...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....
...Holland came next, precise, punchy toned and melodic; then drummer Harland’s climax of press rolls, pings, splashes and thumps....
...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....
...Pat Metheny launched his current quartet of pianist Gwilym Simcock, bassist Linda Oh and Antonio Sánchez on drums in the UK with a steaming residency at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...Bassist Dave Holland’s jazz career began in the mid-1960s with a gig at Ronnie Scott’s and went up several notches when Miles Davis spotted him there two years later and signed him up....
...Dave Holland’s Prism has all the ingredients of a full-throttle fusion quartet....
...’s Prism, who will play Ronnie Scott’s this weekend)....
...I met Potter the night after he opened at Ronnie’s. It was St Patrick’s day, and even the “quiet corner” of his hotel bar was warming up for a night of revelry....
...Ronnie Kent, head of international listing at NYSE Euronext, said: “The decision to launch [in] London is not a blow or a vote of confidence for any specific city, it simply reflects that we are the truly...
...Profit, is newcomer ET Now, a start-up from India’s English language newspaper group, Bennett Coleman, and Bloomberg UTV, a tie-up between the New York-based media group and another Indian entrepreneur, Ronnie...
...Jason Hollands, of fund manager F&C, predicted “a flurry of investors” cashing in long-standing holdings....
...In the late 1980s I was asked to design a hotel, Woody’s on the Beach, for Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones so Fitz and I leapt at the chance to return to this eccentric city....
...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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