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...Both joined the late Wayne Shorter’s free-flowing quartet in 2000, and the same balance of freedom and form was presented here....
...The leader, addressing the audience for the first time, described the gig as “a love letter to Wayne Shorter” and introduced the band....
...Cohen, who has a longstanding late-night residency at Ronnie Scott’s, was imperious throughout....
...“Infant Eyes”, by Wayne Shorter, who died earlier this month, demands a level of focus that most musicians would only attempt towards the end of a set. Here it was achieved from the off....
...Jazz roots were referenced in covers of Freddie Hubbard’s “Super Blue” and Wayne Shorter’s “Where to Find It”; both featured articulate Elling lyrics....
...“I was listening to my mom’s Motown, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Natalie Cole and Aretha Franklin LPs. To me, those artists were some of the very first rappers....
...The superannuation industry is overseen by Apra, which will continue to be led by Wayne Byres....
...In 1973, Dalí invited Cooper to the King Cole Bar at the St Regis in New York, having seen one of his stadium shows....
...A dedication to Wayne Shorter came next, with pedal-point bass and Scott’s falsetto vocals fleshing out the guitar-lead theme....
...Mick Jagger cavorted in a corner of his living-room as though in a stadium and Ronnie Wood played a charismatic solo in what seemed to be a landing by a staircase....
...Saxophonist Courtney Pine established his long-running jazz career and in 1990 Jason Rebello, then 21, released the Wayne Shorter-produced A Clearer View, his debut CD....
...The evening ended with an unexpected Nat King Cole medley....
...Vocal collective Urban Flames strayed into hip-hop, Corinne Bailey Rae floated through Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” and there were tributes to Nat King Cole and Stevie Wonder....
...Towards the end of the first set, saxophonist Wayne Escoffery added a mischievous coda to that mission: “To clarify some misconceptions about drummers.”...
...The long finale segued “Happy People” with the calypso-inflected “Wayne’s Thang”....
...Then “Mystic”, a mood-piece from his Wayne Shorter tribute project Sound Prints, segued into John Coltrane’s “Lonnie’s Lament”....
...And with trumpeter Jeremy Pelt on ebullient form, and saxophonist Wayne Escoffery’s muscularity contrasting with the tenderness of James Burton III’s trombone, the focus never flagged....
...In the 2000s she was at the forefront of the move to elevate celebrities, featuring Coleen Rooney, wife of the footballer Wayne, Cheryl Cole, the singer and Victoria Beckham on her pages....
...New Zealand has been blessed with some of the world’s best rugby brains, including former All Black coaches Brian Lochore, Wayne Smith and current head coach Steve Hansen....
...It’s been 46 years since US saxophonist, poet and playwright Archie Shepp appeared at Ronnie Scott’s as a firebrand member of the jazz new wave....
...The finale found Garrett coaxing and toasting, rapping and beatboxing and rousing the audience to action first on “Happy People” and then to “Wayne’s Thang”....
...But this wasn’t just the Wayne Shorter quartet playing without Wayne Shorter....
...jeremypelt.net Pelt will appear as co-leader of the Soul Factor quintet at Ronnie Scott’s, London, on November 10 and 11...
...Sanborn paid homage to Crawford with “The Peeper”, revisited his jazz-funk back catalogue with “Maputo”, and delivered ballads that had a strong vibrato and a fragile edge – Wayne Shorter’s “Infant Eyes”...
...Douglas and Lovano formed Sound Prints three years ago to celebrate the spirit of Wayne Shorter....
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