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Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
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Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
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Description: The trumpeter's suite inspired by the classic film noir era of the 1940s with support from the award-winning pianist-vocalist Ian Shaw.
Phone: 0207439 0747
Website: www.ronniescotts.co.uk
Email: ronniescotts@ronniescotts.co.uk
Trains: Tube: Leicester Square 
Extra info: Party Hire, Pub, Air Conditioning
As a belated 50th birthday present, trumpeter-composer Guy Barker was given the freedom of Ronnie Scott’s, a mandate to come up with something different every night this week.
“They made me curator and it feels good,” he said, “like looking after a museum of modern art.”
On display last night was the international 16-piece orchestra featured in The Amadeus Project, Barker’s gangsta makeover of The Magic Flute, to be aired again later this week. Yesterday’s arrangements remained his but the composer was Italian altoist Rosario Giuliani, one of his most talented Eurocrats.
This world-class saxman, flown over from Rome, has a beautiful mind. Shapely ideas pour from him with amazing continuity, and his heated duels with Australian tenorist Graeme Blevins made exciting listening. Bracketed between Barker’s artful ensembles, most of which have a film-noir soundtrack flavour, were trumpeter Byron Wallen, trombonist Barnaby Dickinson, baritonist Phil Todd, pianist/organist Ross Stanley and Barker himself.
Completing a hot double-bill this week are Empirical, the award-winning young quintet whose trumpeter Jay Phelps yesterday helped launch Youth Jazz, a £90,000 education project for London schoolchildren.
Until 20 September.
Information: 020 7439 0747.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
