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Description: Rock and Americana from the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and his sons.
Phone: 0207439 0747
Website: www.ronniescotts.co.uk
Email: ronniescotts@ronniescotts.co.uk
Trains: Tube: Leicester Square 
Extra info: Party Hire, Air Conditioning, Pub
Piano man: Jimmy Webb's stellar writing career includes hits such as Witchita Lineman and Up, up and Away
There's no band, just one middle-aged singer-songwriter and his piano, but Jim Webb delivers the goods. As a jazz artist he may rate nul-pwah, as Terry Wogan would put it, but for postwar American balladry this Oklahoma son of a preacher-man (to name one decent song he didn't write) is a genuine cabaret heavyweight.
A devout anglophile - "I fell in love with three English girls before I discovered that they all talk that way" - he sang lustily, propelled by forthright piano work. Between numbers he dropped plenty of showbiz names, including Frank Sinatra - "I always called him Mister Sinatra, out of respect for him as a musician and because I didn't want to end up in the trunk of a car on Mulholland Drive" - and actor Richard Harris, who gleefully informed him: "Tonight we'll stay at my sister's place in Dublin and you'll sleep in the bed where I was conceived."
Galveston, Up, Up and Away, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman ("the greatest torch-song of all time" according to Sinatra), Webb sang them all in a gratifyingly uncloying, full-blooded way.
Some of the higher notes were a little wobbly, but there was a certain magic about hearing great songs performed by their composer. Not even Cassandra Wilson, the sleepy-eyed southern diva packing the Jazz Cafe this week, could rival that.
• Till tomorrow (020 7439 0747).
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Jimmy Webb is right! Frank should always be called MR. SINATRA. 'Ol Blue Eyes invented the interpretations of all the music we listen to today. I saw The Chairman of the Board many times in concert and he once mentioned how sad it was that artists like Jimmy Webb sort of disappeared. I guess the Cole Porters, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstien, Cahn and Van Heusen, the Beatles, et. al, never gave up. And we know Frank never gave up until the day he died. He always gave credit to to the great songwriters. The Man loved music. And sang it with all his heart.
- Arvin Kaufman, Asheville, USA
