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Ronnie Scott's
Ronnie Scott's review
Opened by the British saxophonist Ronnie Scott in 1959, this legendary Soho institution made its name as the first club to host American jazz musicians in the UK. As well as welcoming the biggest names on the jazz scene (Zoot Sims, Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt) it's also made room for other artists that fit the distinctive Ronnie Scott's vibe - Tom Waits, Elkie Brooks and even Mark Knopfler have all performed here. It was completely refurbished in 2006 when theatre impresario Sarah Green took over - Scott had died ten years previously and his business partner wanted out. Capacity has been expanded to 250, and the food is better - but the improvements have come at a cost. The bookings have declined in quality, with decent jazz heavyweights (Roy Haynes, Bill Charlap, Mark Murphy) now outnumbered by some distinctly average pop and funk artists.
Events at Ronnie Scott's
Diane Schuur
Bluesy singer Schuur has been a big hit at Ronnie's since the '80s, having worked with such luminaries as Stan Getz, B.B. King, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Quincy Jones. This ...
Diane Schuur
Bluesy singer Schuur has been a big hit at Ronnie's since the '80s, Schuur has worked with such luminaries as Stan Getz, BB King, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Quincy Jones. Thi...
Azymuth
Veteran Brazilian fusion trio, best known for their funky, late-'70s hit single 'Jazz Carnival', here playing from their recent self-titled album plus many of their classic floor-filling Rio soul-...
Ronnie Scott's details
Transport Leicester Square
020 7439 0747
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we went to Ronnie's recently and were very disappointed. its reputation is bad anyway, and our visit lived up to its reputation. don't bother going here, you will spend too much money on food & drink (£24 for a cheap bottle of wine!) and made to feel unwelcome by the owner. (if he is even the owner, i thought a woman owned it). anyway there is a strange looking man who says its his club and he decides who comes in and doesn't. not very welcoming is it.
Miss Amanda i love floetry and i love indigo brown and they are VERY different ... i dont think you've been to show to see what these girls are like ... i really do wish them the best of luck. As Love Good Music said they do favour them alot, but their musical style is so far removed from what floetry did which is Poetry and Music, these girls don't do poems they just SING, Long live floetry and Indigo Brown. But i hear what you're saying.
Are you serious Amanda? Indigo Brown are amazing. I have seen them live so many times and each time they have been great! I think they get a hard time with the Floetry comparison in their music because they favour them in appearance but if you go to a show (the recorded stuff I have heard doesn't do them justice), you will see their music is nothing like Floetry's and they themselves keep reminding people that they are not trying to be Floetry. We need to lift up and support good music here in the UK rather than shoot it down with venemous rhetoric.
Indigo Brown bite just a little too hard on Floetry's style. Floetry being the bench mark & higher grade musically & visually for these 2 wannabees. I find Indigo Brown less dynamic, less original & more pretentious. I'm looking forward to the Floetry re-union. Til then I guess we will have to endure these tribute copycat acts. Have they been on ex-factor yet?
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