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...Singer Richard Hadfield, the regular Sunday-lunch musical entertainment, has shared a stage with stars from Gregory Porter to Shirley Bassey....
...The storied area conjures up images of the swinging ’60s, Carnaby Street punks, Ronnie Scott’s jazz club and seedy sex shops....
.... £30 each; net-a-porter.co.uk The best gifts I received recently were two artworks by the musician Goldie, who likes to play at Ronnie Scott’s. One is of a skull and roses, the other the Queen....
...Jean Toussaint’s following set was based on the CD Brother Raymond, launched at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...Much of the energy of the neighbourhood derives from its scattering of theatres, live music venues (such as Frith Street’s famous jazz club Ronnie Scott’s), comedy clubs and dingy bars....
...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....
...Porter, the last of four acts presented at Ronnie Scott’s, later revelled in the extra space afforded by a piano trio, and on Wayne Shorter’s “Black Nile”, showed a rare gift for jazz-vocal improvisation...
...Warm-hearted, soul-inflected and very much in command, Porter’s short cameos at the Barbican’s Jazz Voice and brief late spot at Ronnie Scott’s were a talking point....
...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....
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