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this was a triumph of eye-popping production and exhausting choreography
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If his smug stage persona is tricky to warm to, his skill, and the snappiness of Andy Nyman’s direction, are spot-on
Derren Brown
If you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this film
I thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to see
Absolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!
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Description: Detroit sax man who has worked with Davis, Metheny, Hubbard and Tyner plays with pianist Benito Gonzalez and co. Canadian singer Weiss provides support.
Phone: 0207439 0747
Website: www.ronniescotts.co.uk
Email: ronniescotts@ronniescotts.co.uk
Trains: Tube: Leicester Square 
Extra info: Party Hire, Air Conditioning, Pub
Skull-capped shrewdie that he is, Kenny Garrett hit town yesterday with a brand-new group. Keyboarder Jeff Motley and drummer Justin Brown, looked barely out of their teens. The third, Berklee professor Lennie Stalworth, played bass-guitar with a punchy economy that avoided straight four-four time all evening.
This ruthless reshuffle gave the US saxophone virtuoso a precious jolt of vitality.
Motley, a dab hand at synth effects from hot Hammond-organ to heavenly strings, took tantalisingly brief solos that might have lasted longer had Garrett not joined in on second keyboard, an ill-advised luxury that only inhibited his sideman.
Garrett himself opened via a pedal-box that reduced his hairy alto-sax sound to a toy electric violin. But Brown, a slim, whipcord kid with massive drive, rescued this number and lifted the entire session.
Every year Garrett comes up with a sensational new bundle of power, skill and stamina at the drum kit. Imagine a 21st-century Tony Williams and you'd get Justin, a storming player rooted in the fast, brittle crossrhythms of hip-hop. The jazz police might not approve but Brown's relentless momentum made Garrett's cunningly low-burning ideas sound hypermodern.
Charlie Brown Goes to South Africa featured a lilting township beat and a beautifully unexpected key-change, while Sing me a Song of Songmy was a storming 12-bar with changes similar to Billy Harper's classic, Priestess. "Any happy people here?" Garrett asked before going into his singalong hit. Indeed there were many.
Until tomorrow (020 7439 0747).
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