Hints and tips:
...Guitarist John Scofield, one-time sideman to Miles Davis and with credits as long as your arm, applied his steely jazz eye to a bar-room repertoire and joyously rekindled the passion of his formative years...
...Chris Potter’s consummate musicianship and steely improviser’s prowess have been finessed by three decades at the top end of jazz....
...Like John le Carré’s George Smiley, Merrick’s mild exterior conceals a steely determination....
...Whether or not he recognised it, his writing did, however, have some precedents — at least in bladelike literary temper, and the steely sense of honour persisting in a dishonourable world....
...He namechecked each one from a list – “guitarist Al Cherry, incredible” said Deodato; and he was – before finishing with Steely Dan’s “Do it Again”. www.ronniescotts.co.uk...
...He released his first album in 1990, has a coterie of admirers and has played guitar with the best – Steely Dan, the late Michael Brecker and Billy Cobham are the tip of a pretty hefty iceberg....
...The fusion of waspish keyboards and funkadelic bass that saxophonist Ronnie Laws surfed to crossover success came close to that dangerous point, but on his best recordings and especially in live performance...
...This week Ronnie Scott’s has been arranged in the round in order to give audiences a rare way to appreciate the acoustic jazz piano trio....
...When saxophonist Ernie Watts finished the second of two high-energy sets he told us that he first played at Ronnie Scott’s in 1967, with the Buddy Rich Big Band....
...As Ronnie Bowker, head of the Birmingham office of accountants Erns & Young, says: “The advisory sector reflects the strengths and weaknesses of the underlying economy.”...
...Jarrett’s intensity and steely inner logic wrung the last drop of emotion from this in-the-moment performance. It was an exhilarating experience....
...He made his first appearance at Ronnie Scott’s with the pianist Horace Silver’s quintet in 1968, having just left the jazz-rock supergroup Blood, Sweat and Tears to get more musical freedom....
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