RONNIE SCOTT & THE BAND: LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT´S

RONNIE SCOTT´S JAZZ CLUB
(CB, de Londres)
O RS´s é - como tudo aqui em Londres, elegante, sóbrio e caro. O serviço não está à altura do preço cobrado: o garçom demorou exatos 35 minutos prá nos atender, desmistificando a tão enaltecida pontualidade britânica. O trio formado por Larry Coriel, Paul Wertico e Jeff Berlin é excelente. (Não gosto de "fusion" mas a técnica de LC é soberba assim como a de seus companheiros. Depois entrou o excelente combo fixo da casa - "The Ronnie Scott's All Stars", tocando com grande competência os arranjos muito bem escritos para um repertório de "standard" e conhecidos temas de jazz. Valeu a pena.
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RONNIE SCOTT
(CB, from London).
Born Ronald Schatt in Aldgate, East London, Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of sixteen. he toured with Johnny Claes, the trumpeter, from 1944 to 1945, and with Ted Heath in 1946, as well as working with Ambrose, Cab Kaye, and Tito Burns. He was involved in the short-lived musicians' co-operative Club Eleven band and club (1948–1950), with Johnny Dankworth and others, and was a member of the generation of British musicians who worked on the Cunard liner Queen Mary (intermittently 1946–c. 1950) in order to visit New York and hear the new music directly. Scott was among the earliest British musicians to be influenced in his playing style by Charlie Parker and other bebop musicians. In 1952 Scott joined Jack Parnell's orchestra, then led his own nine-piece group and quintet featuring among others, Pete King, with whom he would later open his jazz club, Victor Feldman,
Hank Shaw and Phil Seamen from 1953 to 1956. He co-led The Jazz Couriers with Tubby Hayes from 1957 to 1959, and was leader of a quartet including Stan Tracey (1960–1967). During this period he also did occasional session work; his best-known work here is the solo on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna". From 1967–69, Scott was a member of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band which toured Europe extensively and which also featured fellow tenor players Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, at the same time running his own octet including John Surman and Kenny Wheeler (1968–1969), and a trio with Mike Carr on keyboards and Bobby Gien on drums (1971–1975). He then went on to lead various groups, most of which included
John Critchinson on keyboards and Martin Drew on drums. Ronnie Scott's playing was much admired on both sides of the Atlantic. Charles Mingus said of him in 1961: "Of the white boys, Ronnie Scott gets closer to the negro blues feeling, the way Zoot Sims does." Despite his central position in the British jazz scene, Scott recorded
infrequently during the last few decades of his career. He suffered periods of depression and, while recovering slowly from surgery for tooth implants, died accidentally from a mixture of brandy and temazepam - at the age of sixty-nine. At the subsequent inquest into his death, the coroner's verdict was "death by misadventure".
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
Scott is perhaps best remembered for co-founding, with former tenor sax player Pete King, the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, which opened on October 30, 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district, with the debut of a young alto sax player named Peter King (no relation), before later moving to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street in 1965. The original venue continued in operation as the "Old Place" until the lease ran out in 1967, and was used for performances by the up and coming generation of domestic musicians. Scott regularly acted as the club's genial Master of Ceremonies, and was (in)famous for his repertoire of jokes, asides and one-liners. A typical introduction might go: "Our next guest is one of the finest musicians in the country. In the city, he's crap". After Scott's death, King continued to run the club for a further nine years, before selling the club to theatre impresario Sally Greene in June 2005.
(From Wikipedia, edited by CB).
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MINHA OPINIÃO - confesso que conhecia muito pouco do trabalho de Ronnie Scott. Este álbum se constitui numa agradável surpresa, que resumo com a transcrição do elogio ali de cima, feito pelo gigante CHARLIE MINGUS: "Scott traz consigo o feeling negro do blues, tal como Zoot Sims..." WOW! O octeto por ele liderado destila puro "hard bop" e não é para menos, tendo em vista a presença dos grandes Kenny Wheeler, Ron Matthewson e do excepcional baterista Kenny Clare, responsável pelo "latin groove" em algumas faixas. Muito bom!
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RONNIE SCOTT & THE BAND: LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT´S

PERSONNEL
Kenny Wheeler (tp,flhn)
John Surman (bs,sop)
Chris Pyne (tb)
Ray Warleigh (as,fl)
Ronnie Scott (ts)
Gordon Beck (p,org)
Ron Matthewson (b)
Kenny Clare, Tony Oxley (d)

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