JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2013 - Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

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The theme for the past 12 months at the club has been upgrading. The theme for the past 12 months at the club has been upgrading. We have an enormous number of people come to the club and bar each week and of course the old place takes a bit of a battering. In the past year we have upgraded the sound desk situation, all the bathrooms, much of the back house, the kitchen floor, walls and some of the kit, replaced the club table bases for extra comfort and have installed cameras and built an AV studio. Busy, and costly, times. To be frank it’s a bit of a Forth Bridge this place. It’s often easy to consider Ronnie Scott’s as just the club and the headliner playing therein, when in fact there is a whole lot more going on. The Bar upstairs is a venue in its own right with separate promoter nights bringing all sorts of jazz based music each evening. The Wednesday jam, for instance, has been running almost 5 years now and is as packed as ever. Downstairs the Late Late Shows have been getting extremely busy, with Thursdays particularly getting so full we are finding the place is full at 1am with a queue outside! And then there’s the Big Band and All Stars getting bookings around the world and the weekly radio show - now presented by Ian Shaw - broadcast on Jazz FM, and in Toronto too. Maybe this year’s theme should be world domination. Highlights of the early 2013? Well we have a few new artists to the club in Eumir Deodato - remember “Also Sprach Zarathustra (aka Theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey)”? Plus pop percussionist Manu Katché and Brazilian superstar Milton Nascimento. And at the tail end of February a very long awaited return of Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Pedal Steel Guitar fans will love Robert Randolph on Feb 15th. Simon Cooke MD, Ronnie Scott’s A word to the wise, Kurt Elling in April is shifting at a rate of knots. GIGS AT A GLANCE JANUARY TUES 1ST - WED 2ND: NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA THUR 3RD - SAT 5TH: SARAH JANE MORRIS SUN 6TH: RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA PRESENTS... THE STORY SO FAR SUN 6TH LUNCH JAZZ: LEE GIBSON ‘THE GLORY OF GERSHWIN’ MON 7TH - TUES 8TH: CARLEEN ANDERSON WED 9TH - THUR 10TH: LARRY GOLDINGS, PETER BERNSTEIN, BILL STEWART TRIO FRI 11TH - SAT 12TH: NICOLA CONTE COMBO SUN 13TH: NATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILY SUN 13TH LUNCH JAZZ: JIVE ACES MON 14TH - TUES 15TH: ERIC ALEXANDER & VINCENT HERRING QUINTET FEAT HAROLD MABERN “IN THE SPIRIT OF COLTRANE & CANNONBALL” WED 16TH - SAT 19TH: DEODATO SUN 20TH: JAMES LANGTON’S SOLID SENDERS SUN 20TH LUNCH JAZZ: ALEXANDER STEWART MON 21ST - WED 23RD: MANU KATCHÉ THUR 24TH: DOUBLE BILL: MATTHEW HALSALL + ZARA McFARLANE FRI 25TH - SAT 26TH: MILTON NASCIMENTO SUN 27TH: THE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSION SUN 27TH LUNCH JAZZ: BLUE HARLEM MON 28TH - WED 30TH: MICHEL LEGRAND THURS 31ST: LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES FEBRUARY FRI 1ST - SAT 2ND: LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES SUN 3RD: RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA PRESENTS... THE STORY SO FAR SUN 3RD LUNCH JAZZ: KEVIN FITZSIMMONS MON 4TH - THUR 7TH: RUBY TURNER FRI 8TH - SAT 9TH: DIZZY GILLESPIE AFRO CUBAN EXPERIENCE FEATURING MACHITO JNR SUN 10TH: NATALIE WILLIAMS SOUL FAMILY SUN 10TH LUNCH JAZZ: JIVIN’ MISS DAISY MON 11TH: TRINITY LABAN JAZZ TUES 12TH - WED 13TH: CEDAR WALTON QUARTET THUR 14TH: VALENTINES DAY SPECIAL WITH TINA MAY FRI 15TH: ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND SAT 16TH: BRANDON ALLEN ALL-STAR SEXTET FEAT. MARK NIGHTINGALE & NIGEL HITCHCOCK SUN 17TH: MARC JOHNSON TRIO FEATURING ELIANE ELIAS SUN 17TH LUNCH JAZZ: TJ JOHNSON MON 18TH - SAT 23RD: BILLY COBHAM BAND ‘TALES FROM THE SKELETON COAST’ SUN 24TH: THE RONNIE SCOTT’S BLUES EXPLOSION SUN 24TH LUNCH JAZZ: PEGGY, DUKE & BENNY MON 25TH - TUES 26TH: SOWETO KINCH WED 27TH - SAT 2ND: ARTURO SANDOVAL Booking: ronniescotts.co.uk Tel: 02074390747 Contact: ronniescotts@ronniescotts.co.uk Ronnie Scott’s: 47 Frith Street, London, W1D 4HT facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 02074390747 PAGE 02 PAGE 03
January Artists TUES 1ST - WED 2ND: (Doors 6pm / £18.00 - £32.50) NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Justly revered as a glittering showcase for the country’s best young musicians, NYJO was founded by Bill Ashton, OBE, in 1965, and many of the current generation of top British jazz musicians have risen through its ranks, often becoming established jazz stars whilst still playing with the band. Featuring two vocalists and 22 band members, NYJO is a powerful celebration of the jazz orchestra sound from a band of under 25 year olds, many of whom are destined to become the next UK jazz generation. Much of NYJO's music is written specially for the orchestra by British composers, including past and present members of NYJO. THUR 3RD - SAT 5TH: (Doors 6pm (& 10.30pm fri/sat) / £25.00 - £45.00) SARAH JANE MORRIS Sarah Jane Morris (voc), Henry Thomas (bs), Dominic Miller (gtr), Tony Remy (gtr), Martyn Barker (drs), Alistair Gavin (pno), plus special guests John Eacott (tpt), Annie Whitehead (tb), Michael Rosen (sax). Revered, sensual singer-songwriter Sarah Jane Morris, straddles rock, blues, jazz and soul with a goose-bump raising four octave range that rumbles from the heels of her size eight shoes to the tips of her flame-red mane. Famed for her association with the Communards in the mid-80s and infamous for a banned rendition of the classic Me and Mrs Jones, Sarah Jane Morris has always attracted as much attention for her politics as for her soul-driven, seismic voice. Ten solo albums later, pop stardom on the continent, and a diverse set of musical collaborations on record, film and stage, Morris continues to steer her unorthodox career to greater heights. Expect old faves alongside new material from her recent “Where It Hurts” album. SUN 6TH: (Doors 6.30pm / £25.00 -£40.00) RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ ORCHESTRA Presents… The Story So Far Led by award-winning saxophonist and band-leader Pete Long, the RSJO is one of the UK's finest Big Bands and features the cream of UK talent. This month featuring the music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, The Rat Pack and Benny Goodman. PAGE 04 PAGE 05 MON 7TH - TUES 8TH: (Doors 6.00pm / £30.00 - £42.50) CARLEEN ANDERSON Blessed with a uniquely soulful voice, soul singer Anderson found early fame with the hit single ‘Apparently Nothin’ with the cult band Young Disciples and has since gone on to great things as a popular and highly rated soul/jazz vocalist, both as a solo artist and in the company of acts such as The Brand New Heavies, Paul Weller, Bryan Ferry and Courtney Pine. She also just happens to be James Brown’s goddaughter and the daughter of his legendary vocalist Vicki Anderson. SUN 6TH LUNCH: (Doors 12 noon - 4pm / £15.00 - £18.00) LEE GIBSON ‘The Glory Of Gershwin’ One of UK finest interpreter of this classic material and influenced early in her singing career by the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Lee knows how to swing a band. She is accompanied by the John Horler Trio plus featured saxophonist Jamie Talbot. facebook.com/ronniescottsclub twitter.com/officialronnies ronniescotts.co.uk / tel: 02074390747
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