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...So that was written by wonderful pianist, and Duke Ellington’s right hand, Billy Strayhorn when he was 19 years old....
...“There was nonstop Ellington, everywhere,” explained the English composer/bandleader to this sold-out show at Ronnie Scott’s. “It gave a sense of how wonderful the world could be.”...
...gorgeously funky remake of Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood”....
...His style drew on American influences, in particular the percussive angularity of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk and the modernist fluency of Bud Powell....
...“We are at the end of a 40-year bond bull market, and we are going to have to navigate a bear market at some point in the future,” says Dwight Scott, global head of Blackstone’s credit investing arm....
...The recording was made in France in 1860 by the printer and bookseller Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville using a phonautograph, which translated soundwaves on to sheets of parchment — this was 17 years before...
...The Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander billed his week-long Ronnie Scott’s residency as the “Harlem-Kingston Express”....
...The second half re-draughted Ellington’s “Tulip or Turnip” and mixed Weimar cabaret and schmaltz on Brecht and Weill’s “Alabama Song”....
...”; and Leonard Bernstein’s tempo-changing complexity “Ballet in Times Square”, arranged by saxophonist Scott Silbert, delivered a mid-set peak....
...The trio returned for Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady” and an original, “Humpty Dumpty”, from Corea’s concept album The Mad Hatter....
...These pieces, along with a haunting “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love”, featured vocalist Kandace Springs....
...And then followed “Open Letter to Duke”, Mingus’s homage to his major influence, Duke Ellington....
...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....
...The plane carrying Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA is seen as it taxis after landing at Ellington Field after his return to Earth...
...(Upper Manhattan Medical Group)”, “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” and Ellington’s “Prelude to a Kiss”....
...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 first set opened with a vowel-stretched reading of Ellington’s “Perdido” and a swinging “It Don’t Mean a Thing”, nicely spiced by a sultry, torch-song introduction....
...The brass section periodically went on walkabout and, every so often, saxophonist Knoel Scott launched into a series of cartwheels and somersaults....
...For the next week, Ronnie Scott’s lays bare the intricacies of unadorned rhythm sections with nightly double-bills as part of the International Piano Trio Festival....
...The programme opened with Ronnie Scott’s musical director James Pearson leading a piano trio through the 1959 composition “Little Klunk” – written, we were told, four months before Ronnie Scott opened his...
...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....
...Making the film, Zaentz resisted pressure to broaden its appeal by casting Demi Moore in the role that made Kristin Scott Thomas famous....
...The I of Leadership: Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing, by Nigel Nicholson, John Wiley/Jossey-Bass, RRP£18.99/$29.95 The gifts of jazz musician Duke Ellington and the heroism of Antarctic explorer...
...Almost inevitably, he bumped into saxophonist Ronnie Scott, who persuaded him to play jazz full-time....
...Standouts included Hobgood’s haunting impressionism on “I Only Have Eyes for You”, and the chattering, contemporary, time-aware pulse provided by new-generation drummer Kendrick Scott....
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