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...He makes a great Elvis: he looks the part, moves well and, perhaps wisely, lets country star Ronnie McDowell do the singing....
...He referenced both Parker and Coltrane at this hothouse gig; Parker via a brief flicker of syncopated swing, Coltrane as a marker in a modal lament....
...In the past Mrs May has been able to count on the support of perhaps half a dozen Eurosceptic Labour MPs, but Mr Corbyn’s camp expects that leftwing veterans such as Dennis Skinner and Ronnie Campbell will...
...Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation” followed, introduced by the rhythm section as a samba and played at a furious pace....
...As in his recent Ronnie Scott’s residency, Elling reworked “Little Drummer Boy” into a transcendent celebration of rhythm....
...Sanborn was born in Florida but grew up in St Louis, listening to Hank Williams, Howling Wolf, Ray Charles and Charlie Parker. He’s happy when he sees cross-pollination today....
...The evening ended with Charlie Parker’s “Segment”, a blast of up-tempo bebop that climaxed with a rumbling drum solo. ronniescotts.co.uk...
...But the spirits of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane were never far away, while the long-drawn, emotionally draining finale played out to a soundtrack of diamond-hard funk....
...Johnny Marr and Mark Knopfler guest on guitar, Maceo Parker makes moody sounds with his sax, Nile Rodgers and the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s Flea play bass and Ronnie Spector turns up on backing vocals....
...The first number implied swing and elliptically quoted Charlie Parker’s “Billie’s Bounce”, there was a lovely reverie, an oblique and funky samba and a sedate and moving memorial to bassist Charlie Haden...
...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....
...Flautist Eddie Parker’s “Bright Smoke Cold Fire” arced from boppish lines to raw-edged funk, and trumpeter Chris Batchelor’s “Creeper” began with fragmented horns, featured a folk-song theme and ended with...
...RF presteignefestival.com, 01544 267800 … The Music of Charlie Parker featuring Gilad Atzmon with Strings, August 25-26, Ronnie Scott’s, London Charlie Parker played his socks off on his late 1940s recordings...
...But the prize was seeing the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk in the flesh....
...Jayne Parker, director of the Property Concierge Company, said her business had grown between 10 and 20 per cent last year....
...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....
...Some of them had even played with Charlie Parker. “It’s not contrived teaching,” said Glasper. “It’s something really open, but they come more from the kick-your-butt standpoint.”...
...Drummer Roy Haynes, whose A-List credits begin with Lester Young and Charlie Parker in late 1940s New York, was supported by Peter King, who played sax at the opening of Ronnie Scott’s Gerrard Street club...
...Parker’s calypso-themed “Barbados”, when finally introduced, was shorn of its final measure, repeated and left dangling. Ronnie Scott’s...
...() I left midway through the second set to get to Jazz on 3’s live broadcast from Ronnie Scott’s....
...Roy Haynes, who was in the legendary saxophonist’s quintet for three years, was at Ronnie Scott’s for a short residency; saxophonist Lee Konitz, founder member of the cool school, but twinned with Parker...
...The first set was continuous, the second stopped only for the announcement of a single cover, Muhal Richard Abrams’ evocative ballad “Charlie in the Parker”....
...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....
...At Monday’s Ronnie Scott’s gig, layered textures and broody themes, supported by shifting accents, beats and tones, launched a rich collective dialogue....
...Ronnie Ludwig, a partner in the Edinburgh office of Saffery Champness, an accountancy firm, said: “Inquiries are way up. People are now asking the question: what would be involved?...
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