GIVE SOMEONE THE GIFT OF JAZZ THIS CHRISTMAS b u l C 6 z 1 0 z 2 a r J e MEMBERSHIP TO b s ’ m t t e c o e c D / S r e e i GO TO: WWW.RONNIESCOTTS.CO.UK b n m e OR CALL: 020 74390747 n v o Europe’s Premier Jazz Club in the heart of Soho, London ‘Hugh Masekela Returns...‘ o N R Cover artist: Hugh Masekela Page 36 Page 01 Artists at a Glance Tues 1st - Thurs 3rd: Steve Cropper Band N Fri 4th: Randy Brecker & Balaio play Randy In Brasil o v Sat 5th: Terence Blanchard E-Collective e Sun 6th Lunch Jazz: Atila - ‘King For A Day’ m b Sun 6th: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra e Mon 7th - Sat 12th: Kurt Elling Quintet “The Beautiful Day” r Thurs 10th: Late Late Show Special: Brandee Younger: A Tribute To Alice Coltrane & Dorothy Ashby Sun 13th Lunch Jazz: Salena Jones & The Geoff Eales Quartet Sun 13th: Dean Brown - Rolajafufu The Home Secretary Amber Rudd came up with Mon 14th - Tues 15th : Bettye LaVette Wed 16th - Thurs 17th : Marcus Strickland Twi-Life a wheeze the other day that all companies should Fri 18th - Sat 19th : Charlie Hunter: An Evening With publish how many overseas workers they employ. Sun 20th Lunch Jazz: Charlie Parker On Dial: Presented By Alex Webb I, in my naivety, assumed this was to show how Sun 20th: Oz Noy Mon 21st: Ronnie Scott’s Blues Explosion much we relied upon them in the UK and that a UT Tues 22nd - Wed 23rd: Hugh Masekela SOLD O dumb-ass ban or regulated immigration system An additional side effect of Brexit is that we now Thurs 24th - Sat 26th: Alice Russell would be highly harmful to the economy as a have a low strength pound against the dollar, Sun 27th Lunch Jazz: Pete Horsfall Quartet whole. Apparently I was wrong, it was just more and we, as an importer of USA bands, are being Sun 27th: The Last Poets Mon 28th: TBA pandering to the Brexit crew. hit. The bands we bring over from the USA are Tues 29th - Wed 30th: Maxi-Jazz & The E-Type Boys getting less $ for their £’s fee which in the Ronnie Scott’s has a workforce of over 100 if you medium and long term is possibly going to affect Thurs 1st: Maxi-Jazz & The E-Type Boys D include all the part timers and I guess that a Fri 2nd - Sun 4th: Curtis Stigers e our ability to attract the talent. c Sun 2nd Lunch Jazz: Curtis Stigers e good 80% are ‘overseas’ workers. This will be m Mon 5th - Sat 7th: Motown Christmas Revue: Natalie Williams Soul Family typical of most London hospitality businesses and As I see it a vote to leave the EU was a direct b Thurs 8th - Fri 9th: Joe Stilgoe Band – Get Ready For Christmas e has been the case for decades. Overseas attack on Ronnie Scott’s. One simple question Sat 10th: Absolute Earth Wind & Fire: Performed By Serpentine Fire! r workers are vital to the industry, they add and so so many consequences. Sun 11th Lunch Jazz: Celebrating Sinatra! With Iain MacKenzie And Swing City expertise, variety, interest and are terrific Sun 11th: Celebrating Sinatra! With Iain MacKenzie And Swing City We ran a limerick competition as part of our Jazz Mon 12th - Wed 14th: Motown Christmas Revue: Natalie Williams Soul Family workers. Ronnie Scott’s loves having the rainbow Industry quiz recently, here’s the winner entry: Thurs 15th - Sat 17th: Ray Gelato & The Giants of nationalities that make up our workforce . Sun 18th Lunch Jazz: Jazz At The Movies ‘Swinging Christmas’ With Joanna Eden “Great Scott!” Said Ron on a gig Sun 18th: Ronnie Scott’s Blues Explosion Mon 19th - Fri 23rd: Ray Gelato & The Giants This Brexit thing must be a rig. Sat 24th - Sun 25th: Club Closed I don’t give a damn, Ron... Mon 26th - Tues 27th: Liane Carroll’s Christmas Turkey it was that David Camer-on... Wed 28th - Thurs 29th: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra Christmas Special Fri 30th: Booker T Jones and he was balls-deep in a pig. Sat 31st: Black Tie NYE Party! Booker T Jones, Ray Gelato Giants and the Ronnie Scott’s All-Stars! Genius. Upstairs at Ronnie’s (early): Ronnie’s NYE Cocktail Party feat. TJ Johnson and the sounds of New Orleans! Simon Cooke MD Ronnie Scotts Upstairs at Ronnie’s (late): Funky Nation NYE Special! DJ Paul Trouble Anderson, Perry Louis & Jazzcotech, Mike Vitti Sun 1st - Thurs 5th Jan: Booker T Jones Booking: ronniescotts.co.uk Tel: 020 7439 0747 Contact: [email protected] 02 facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 020 7439 0747 03 Page 02 Page 03 N o v e m b e r TUES 1ST - THURS 3RD NOV: Doors 5.30pm & 9.30pm (two shows) £45 - £60 STEVE CROPPER BAND FRI 4TH NOV: Steve Cropper (guitar) Doors 6.30pm & 10.30pm Lee Finkelstein (drums) (two shows) / £25 - £42.5 Rusty Cloud (B3) James Haggerty (bass) RANDY BRECKER Legendary guitarist, A & R man, engineer, & BALAIO PLAY producer, songwriting partner of Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd and a dozen others RANDY IN BRASIL plus founding member of both Booker T and Randy Brecker (trumpet) the MG’s and The Mar-Keys, Steve Cropper Joäo Mascarenhas (piano/keys) was literally involved in virtually every record SUN 6TH NOV: Sergio Brandao (bass) issued by Stax from 1961 to 1970. Such Doors 6.00pm / £25 - £40 Leonardo Susi (drums) credits assure Cropper of an honoured place Marco Bosco (percussion) in the soul music hall of fame. As co-writer RONNIE SCOTT’S of (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay, Knock World-class hard-bop and jazz trumpeter On Wood and In The Midnight Hour, equally at home with jazz, fusion, funk or JAZZ ORCHESTRA Cropper is in line for immortality and more even sophisticated pop. He played with Led by award-winning saxophonist and recently has found an even wider audience the likes of Horace Silver, Billy Cobham band-leader Pete Long, the RSJO is one of as a member of the Blues Brothers Band. and Larry Coryell before finding fame the UK’s finest Big Bands and features the with his brother Michael in the legendary cream of UK talent. Featuring classy funk and fusion outfit the Brecker Brothers arrangements of classic jazz numbers and in the 70s. For these shows as Brecker Here they present the “The Story So Far...” Cropper is in line for immortality and more recently has revisits his Grammy Award winning album featuring the music of Count Basie, Duke ‘Randy in Brasil’. Expect samba kissed Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, found an even wider audience as a member of the contemporary jazz, mellow funk and The Rat Pack and Benny Goodman. Blues Brothers Band. beautifully crafted tunes from a modern master and a top-class band. 04 facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 020 7439 0747 05 Page 04 Page 05 N SAT 5TH NOV: o Doors 6.00pm (& 10.30pm fri/sat v only) e £25 - £45 m b TERENCE e BLANCHARD r E-COLLECTIVE Terence Blanchard (trumpet) David Ginyard Jr (bass) Oscar Seaton (drums) Charles Altura (guitar) Fabian Almazan (piano) With more than 29 albums and multiple Grammy Awards and nominations to his credit, renowned New Orleans trumpeter, composer and bandleader Terence Blanchard unveils his ambitious E-Collective. Drawing on inspiration MON 7TH - SAT 12TH NOV: from Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew period they Doors 6pm & (10.30pm fri/sat only) / £40-£60 eschew the traditional soloist/accompaniment approach of jazz in favour of a more loose- limbed style featuring continuous improvisation KURT ELLING QUINTET: from each band-member. The individual solos “THE BEAUTIFUL DAY” are more prominent, but never overwhelm the music's collective approach. From free, extended improvisation to a groove that draws on funk and Kurt Elling (voice), Stu Mindeman (piano/organ), Ulysses Owens Jr. (drums) R&B. Music for the heart, soul, mind and feet! Clark Sommers (bass) & John Mclean (guitar) Arguably the greatest male jazz singer of his generation, GRAMMY Award-winning Elling is a super-star who has spent the last fourteen years at the top of the Down Beat Critics poll. As the Guardian commented his “rich, chewy baritone... his easy-swinging, ring-a-ding-ding delivery and his staggering jazz chops turn him into a kind of Sinatra with superpowers”. Elling is a renowned artist of vocalese-the writing and performing of words over recorded improvised jazz SUN LUNCH JAZZ 6TH NOV: Doors 12 noon - 4pm / £12 - £15 solos. The natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure and Jon Hendricks, Elling ATILA - ‘KING FOR A DAY’ has set his own lyrics to the improvised solos of Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny. Featuring Atila (vocals), Gabriel Latchin (piano), Tom Farmer (bass), Josh Morrison (drums), Elling tells rich stories about exotic places, cultures and times and appears here in support of his Colin Oxley (guitar). This thoughtful and entertaining show is a fresh look at the life and work of new album called ‘The Beautiful Day’ which is Kurt’s first holiday album. the timeless Nat King Cole. Sunday lunch available to order. 06 facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 020 7439 0747 07 Page 06 Page 07 N o v SUN 13TH NOV: e Doors 6.30pm / £25 - £40 m b DEAN BROWN e - RoLaJaFuFu r Dean Brown (guitar) Marvin "Smitty" Smith (drums) Linley Marthe (bass) THURS 10TH NOV: Bernard Maseli (electric vibraphone) Doors 10.30pm / £12 / £6 concessions Mateusz Pliniewicz (violin) Jazz-rock renegade guitarist Dean Brown LATE LATE SHOW unleashes expansive, all-star roller coaster MON 14TH - TUES 15TH NOV: ROLAJAFUFU with a stellar band that features SPECIAL: BRANDEE Doors 6pm / £35 - £50 legendary drummer ‘Smitty’ Smith and rising YOUNGER: A TRIBUTE star bassist Marthe.