May - Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

GIGS AT A GLANCEAs I write this - half way throughGeorgie Fame’s week- it’s not possible to buy a ticket for a show at the club for the next20 days, everything is sold out. Now we could claim that that’s allto do with us being a great old place and the artists all beingfantastic, and of course there is something in that, but then I hearthat business is pretty good all over town. Steve Rubie from the Sixwas in for one of Georgie’s shows and he said that his trade downin Chelsea is pretty good and that seems to be the general Londonlive Jazz story.Which leads me to a question I’m asked a lot at the moment, - whenwill we start streaming live concerts onto the web from the clubespecially as getting in is now so difficult. ?Now I’m not one of those first adopters - people who have to havethe latest everything as soon as it appears, I’m more inclined to sitback and see how things settle, see which technology comes outahead, get the bugs out of the tech and then get involved. So is nowthe time? Broadband is probably fast enough for sure and thereceiving end quality gets better and better, buffering seems to be athing of the past in the main.So the question really is, do people really watch a live concertexperience on a computer, or maybe a smart TV if you have the kit.?Well I don’t know, they tell me that the mega Pop/Rock bands get agood take up, but Jazz ? Another option is to broadcast into Cinemas,opera does very well, I’ve seen the numbers so maybe jazz wouldwork too. Well it is our intention to find out, quite probably by theend of the year in some form or fashion, so stay tuned.And if by the time you get round to buying some tickets for the realthing, and the damn show is sold out, may I recommend the Late Lateshows. Or the Wednesday night jazz jam upstairs - now 5 years oldand still packing them in.Simon Cooke MD, Ronnie Scott’sMAYWED 1st:THUR 2nd:FRI 3rd - SAT 4th:SUN 5TH:SUN 5th LUNCH JAZZ:MON 6th - THUR 9th:FRI 10th - SAT 11th:SUN 12th:SUN 12th LUNCH JAZZ:MON 13th - TUES 14th:WED 15th - THUR 16th:FRI 17th - SAT 18th:SUN 19th:SUN 19th LUNCH JAZZ:MON 20th - TUES 21st:WED 22nd:THUR 23rd - SAT 25th:SUN 26th:SUN 26th LUNCH JAZZ:MON 27th - TUES 28th:WED 29th - THUR 30th:FRI 31st:JUNESAT 1st:SUN 2nd:SUN 2nd LUNCH JAZZ:MON 3rd - SAT 8th:SUN 9th:SUN 9th LUNCH JAZZ:MON 10th - TUES 11th:WED 12th:THUR 13th - FRI 14th:SAT 15th - SUN 16th:SUN 16th LUNCH JAZZ:MON 17th - FRI 21st:SAT 22nd:SUN 23rd:SUN 23rd LUNCH JAZZ:MON 24th - TUES 25th:WED 26th - SUN 30th:SUN 23rd LUNCH JAZZ:SOLD OUTMADELEINE PEYROUXCHINA MOSESMILES SMILESRONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRAPresents... The Story So FarDIGBY FAIRWEATHER & FRIENDSMIKE STERN/BILL EVANS BANDfeat. DAVE WECKL & TOM KENNEDYMICHEL CAMILO TRIOCOUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA Directed by Dennis MackrelELAINE DELMAR with THE BRIAN DEE QUARTETfeat. JIM MULLENGARY BURTON NEW QUARTET feat. JULIAN LAGEROY HAYNES: FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BANDJULIAN JOSEPH TRIONATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILYSUE RICHARDSON QUINTET feat. KAREN SHARPBOBBY BROOM ORGAN TRIOBLINQ QUARTET (Brendan Reilly, Liane Carroll, Ian Shaw,Natalie Williams) feat. Gwilym SimcockRAY GELATO & THE GIANTSTHE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSIONNEVADA ST FOURTOM HARRELL QUINTETCLAIRE MARTIN with THE DAVE NEWTON TRIOMONTY ALEXANDERMONTY ALEXANDERRONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRAPresents... The Story So FarPAUL HOLGATE’S SINATRA SEXTETKYLE EASTWOOD BANDNATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILYJIVE ACESAL DI MEOLA Plays Beatles and more...TONY KOFI’S LINEAGETony Kofi, Byron Wallen, Trevor Watkis, Larry Bartley, Rod YoungsJIMMY SMITH TRIBUTE feat. FRED WESLEYDIRTY DOZEN BRASS BANDKAI HOFFMAN AND KAI’S CATSCURTIS STIGERSROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BANDTHE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSIONKEVIN FITZSIMMONS SEXTET: Bennett to BubleEDDIE PALMIERI & THE AFROCARIBBEAN ALLSTARSBRUBECKS PLAY BRUBECK - Featuring Darius, Chris and DanBrubeck with special guest Dave O’Higgins.BRUBECKS PLAY BRUBECKSOLD OUTBooking: ronniescotts.co.uk Tel: 02074390747Contact: ronniescotts@ronniescotts.co.ukRonnie Scott’s: 47 Frith Street, London, W1D 4HTfacebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 02074390747PAGE 02 PAGE 03