Andy Davies & His Stormin' Quintet
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THE BEST AND MOST TALKED ABOUT JAZZ JAM IN LONDON! THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT JJAAZZZZ JJAAMM LED BY THE DYNAMIC YOUNG TRUMPETER ANDY DAVIES & HIS STORMIN' QUINTET IN RONNIE'S BAR - UPSTAIRS AT RONNIE SCOTT'S “Now celebrating it’s 5th Birthday ” MA Y - J UNE 2013 Featuring: MADELEINE PEYROUX | CHINA MOSES | MILES SMILES | RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA | DIGBY FAIRWEATHER & FRIENDS | MIKE STERN / BILL EVANS BAND featuring DAVE WECKL & TOM KENNEDY | MICHEL CAMILO TRIO | COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA™ directed by DENNIS MACKREL | GARY BURTON NEW ALL WELCOME - JAM OR JUST HANG! QUARTET featuring JULIAN LAGE | ROY HAYNES: FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BAND | JULIAN JOSEPH TRIO | NATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILY | BOBBY BROOM ORGAN MUSIC STARTS 9.30pm TRIO | BLINQ QUARTET feat. GWILYM SIMCOCK | RAY GELATO & THE GIANTS | THE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSION | TOM HARRELL QUINTET | CLAIRE MARTIN WITH BEST COCKTAILS IN TOWN THE DAVE NEWTON TRIO | MONTY ALEXANDER | KYLE EASTWOOD BAND | AL DI MEOLA | LINEAGE feat. TONY KOFI, BYRON WALLEN, TREVOR WATKIS, LARRY BARTLEY, ROD YOUNGS | JIMMY SMITH TRIBUTE feat. FRED WESLEY | DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND | FREE ENTRY M.U. & RONNIE'S MEMBERS CURTIS STIGERS | ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND | EDDIE PALMIERI & THE AFROCARIBBEAN ALLSTARS | BRUBECKS PLAY BRUBECK free beofre 8pm, £5 after 8pm / £8 from 11pm Cover artist: Roy Haynes: Fountain of Youth Band (Wed 15th - Thur 16th May) PAGE 32 PAGE 01 GIGS AT A GLANCE MAY UT WED 1st : MADELEINE PEYROUX SOLD O THUR 2 nd : CHINA MOSES FRI 3 rd - SAT 4 th : MILES SMILES As I write this - half way through SUN 5TH: RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA Presents... The Story So Far Georgie Fame’s week SUN 5th LUNCH JAZZ: DIGBY FAIRWEATHER & FRIENDS MON 6 th - THUR 9 th : MIKE STERN/BILL EVANS BAND feat. DAVE WECKL & TOM KENNEDY - it’s not possible to buy a ticket for a show at the club for the next FRI 10 th - SAT 11 th : MICHEL CAMILO TRIO 20 days, everything is sold out. Now we could claim that that’s all SUN 12 th : COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA™ Directed by Dennis Mackrel to do with us being a great old place and the artists all being SUN 1 2th LUNCH JAZZ: ELAINE DELMAR with THE BRIAN DEE QUARTET feat. JIM MULLEN fantastic, and of course there is something in that, but then I hear MON 13 th - TUES 14 th : GARY BURTON NEW QUARTET feat. JULIAN LAGE that business is pretty good all over town. Steve Rubie from the Six WED 15 th - THUR 16 th : ROY HAYNES: FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BAND was in for one of Georgie’s shows and he said that his trade down FRI 17 th - SAT 18 th : JULIAN JOSEPH TRIO SUN 19 th : NATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILY in Chelsea is pretty good and that seems to be the general London SUN 19 th LUNCH JAZZ: SUE RICHARDSON QUINTET feat. KAREN SHARP live Jazz story. MON 20 th - TUES 21 st : BOBBY BROOM ORGAN TRIO WED 22 nd : BLINQ QUARTET (Brendan Reilly, Liane Carroll, Ian Shaw, Which leads me to a question I’m asked a lot at the moment, - when Natalie Williams) feat. Gwilym Simcock will we start streaming live concerts onto the web from the club THUR 23 rd - SAT 25 th : RAY GELATO & THE GIANTS SUN 2 6th : THE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSION especially as getting in is now so difficult. ? SUN 26 th LUNCH JAZZ: NEVADA ST FOUR MON 27 th - TUES 2 8th : TOM HARRELL QUINTET Now I’m not one of those first adopters - people who have to have WED 29 th - THUR 3 0th : CLAIRE MARTIN with THE DAVE NEWTON TRIO the latest everything as soon as it appears, I’m more inclined to sit FRI 31 st : MONTY ALEXANDER back and see how things settle, see which technology comes out ahead, get the bugs out of the tech and then get involved. So is now JUNE the time? Broadband is probably fast enough for sure and the SAT 1st : MONTY ALEXANDER SUN 2 nd : RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA receiving end quality gets better and better, buffering seems to be a Presents... The Story So Far thing of the past in the main. SUN 2 nd LUNCH JAZZ: PAUL HOLGATE’S SINATRA SEXTET MON 3 rd - SAT 8 th : KYLE EASTWOOD BAND So the question really is, do people really watch a live concert SUN 9 th : NATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILY experience on a computer, or maybe a smart TV if you have the kit.? SUN 9 th LUNCH JAZZ: JIVE ACES MON 10 th - TUES 11 th : AL DI MEOLA Plays Beatles and more... Well I don’t know, they tell me that the mega Pop/Rock bands get a WED 12 th : TONY KOFI’S LINEAGE good take up, but Jazz ? Another option is to broadcast into Cinemas, Tony Kofi, Byron Wallen, Trevor Watkis, Larry Bartley, Rod Youngs opera does very well, I’ve seen the numbers so maybe jazz would THUR 13 th - FRI 14 th : JIMMY SMITH TRIBUTE feat. FRED WESLEY SAT 15 th - SUN 16 th : DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND work too. Well it is our intention to find out, quite probably by the SUN 16 th LUNCH JAZZ: KAI HOFFMAN AND KAI’S CATS T end of the year in some form or fashion, so stay tuned. MON 17 th - FRI 21 st : CURTIS STIGERS SOLD OU SAT 22 nd : ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND And if by the time you get round to buying some tickets for the real SUN 23 rd : THE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSION thing, and the damn show is sold out, may I recommend the Late Late SUN 23 rd LUNCH JAZZ: KEVIN FITZSIMMONS SEXTET : Bennett to Buble MON 24 th - TUES 25 th : EDDIE PALMIERI & THE AFROCARIBBEAN ALLSTARS shows. Or the Wednesday night jazz jam upstairs - now 5 years old WED 26 th - SUN 30 th : BRUBECKS PLAY BRUBECK - Featuring Darius, Chris and Dan and still packing them in. Brubeck with special guest Dave O’Higgins. SUN 23 rd LUNCH JAZZ: BRUBECKS PLAY BRUBECK Simon Cooke MD, Ronnie Scott’s Booking: ronniescotts.co.uk Tel: 02074390747 Contact: [email protected] Ronnie Scott’s: 47 Frith Street, London, W1D 4HT facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 02074390747 PAGE 02 PAGE 03 May Artists THUR 2ND: (Doors 6.00pm / £20.00 - £35.00 ) CHINA MOSES Highly charismatic French jazz singer (and MTV presenter) who just happens to be the daughter of the great Dee Dee Bridgewater and who has inherited her mothers soulful style and performs with a captivating panache. Moses appears here playing material from her latest project Crazy Blues, conceived as a tribute to some of the great dames of blues and soul who have inspired her. Expect material from Dinah Washington and some of her precursors and peers: Mamie Smith, Helen Humes, Lil Green, Ma Rainey, as well as stars like Esther Phillips, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Etta James, Ann Peebles and Donna Summer. T SOLD OU WED 1ST MAY: (Doors 5.30pm & 9.30pm (two shows) / £60.00 - £80.00) MADELEINE SUN 5TH: (Doors 6.30pm / £25.00 -£40.00) PEYROUX RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA A remarkable coup for Ronnie’s as the sublimely talented Peyroux drops in for three nights in support of her superb new album The Blue Room. Presents… The Story So Far Often compared to Billie Holiday, Peyroux’s intimate, sophisticated style Led by award-winning saxophonist and band-leader Pete Long, the RSJO is of blues-tinged singing has made her a genuine international star and one of the UK's finest Big Bands and features the cream of UK talent. This like Holiday she is a singer who transcends any notion of genre making month featuring music from featuring the music of Count Basie, Duke everything she sings uniquely her own. Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, The Rat Pack and Benny Goodman. The Blue Room reunited Peyroux with producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock) and at the heart of their new album together SUN 12TH JAZZ LUNCH: (D oors 12pm / £15.00 - £18.00) is a unique interpretation of classic Ray Charles material from his DIGBY FAIRWEATHER & FRIENDS legendary “Sounds in Country and Western Music” album as well as The ever popular Bobby Hackett influenced cornetist more contemporary material from Randy Newman and Warren Zevon. and singer Digby Fairweather with his all-star group. facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 02074390747 PAGE 04 PAGE 05 May (cont) THUR 7TH - FRI 8TH: (Doors 6.00pm & 10.30pm (two shows Friday only) / £30.00 - £48.00) MIKE STERN/BILL EVANS BAND Featuring DAVE WECKL & TOM KENNEDY Mike stern (gtr), Bill Evans (sax), Dave Weckl (drs), Tom Kennedy (bs). FRI 3RD - SAT 4TH: (Doors 6.00pm & 10.30pm (two shows) / £25.00 -£45.00) MILES SMILES A fusion master-class, fronted my masterful guitarist and five-time Grammy winner Stern (a firm club favourite), formidable ex-Miles Davis saxophonist Bill Wallace Roney (tpt), Alphonse Mouzon (drs), Joey DeFrancesco (org), Evans, bassist Tom Kennedy and legendary drummer, producer and composer Ralphe Armstrong (bs). Dave Weckl. Expect hard-hitting, razor sharp contemporary jazz and killer fusion delivered with panache and style by a true fusion super group! More than 20 years after his death, jazz megastar Miles Davis continues to cast a long shadow over the music world. So it is fitting that this all-star project is named after Miles Davis 1967 masterpiece, Miles Smiles. The memory of Miles Smiles and the legendary quintet that recorded it (Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams will be evoked by some of most prodigious players in jazz today.