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Guide to the London Jazz Festival

30.10.09
The London Jazz Festival swings into town next month - it's time to learn to love the J-word. Richard Godwin takes you from A to Z... more

Ronnie's celebrates with Jack Bruce

26.10.09
Singer-composer Jack Bruce has more right to play Ronnie Scott's than most British chart-toppers.... more

BritJazz09 is a resounding success

17.08.09
To general delight and amazement, BritJazz09 saw full houses throughout and future events now look a certainty, says Jack Massarik... more

Buckingham Palace hits right note with jazz fans

03.08.09
Buckingham Palace made a surprise appearance today on a shortlist of the country's most important jazz venues... more

Singing with your supper

15.04.09
Combine dining out with a live music set at some of London's top restaurants.... more

Things are heating up for Soweto Kinch

31.03.09
Since roaring down the M1 with his alto sax and a strikingly original concept album, Soweto Kinch has kept a low profile, but look out.... more

Jazz clubs gamble fortune

15.12.08
The talent bookers at Ronnie Scott's and the Pizza Express Club in Dean Street have backed two groups to keep cash registers ringing.... more

Abdullah Ibrahim is architect of ambience

01.12.08
Wily old fox that he is, Abdullah Ibrahim rations his appearances and takes care to give them atmosphere.... more

Manners, Lily - it's so not cool to lash out

20.08.08
When did it become a ho-ho-ho national joke for our celebrities to beat people up? The nation is chortling today over the photos of a trashed Lily Allen punching a member of the public outside Ronnie Scott's... more

Wild Lily Allen lashes out at a woman during a heavy night out

19.08.08
Lily Allen threw a punch at a passer-by during a drinking session in London's Soho. Lily reacted after being heckled as she left Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club at 2am. ... more

Showing maturity

06.05.08
Gone are the screaming, circular-breathing 20-minute histrionics that left listeners frazzled. Afropeans welcomes more restrained jazz.... more

Jazz has a new image

25.03.08
US tenorist Eric Alexander is more George Coleman than Coltrane. A product of jazz conservatories rather than smoky basements, he provides flab-free contemporary jazz.... more

Stepping out the shadows

29.01.08
Once a humble supporting act, singer-pianist Liane Carroll finds herself back at Ronnie Scott's a fully-fledged star.... more

World-class icebreaker

16.01.08
Few UK artists can headline at Ronnie Scott's as effectively as Claire Martin, a charismatic singer and world-class icebreaker.... more

Ronnie Scott's: We will present the finest jazz

12.12.07
The owner of Ronnie Scott's has pledged to uphold its tradition of booking great jazz players.... more

Ronnie Scott's in crisis as artistic director quits

11.12.07
Ronnie Scott's jazz club is in turmoil after its artistic director, Leo Green, quit amid speculation he had fallen out with the jazz fan who bought the club two years ago.... more

At the Beck and call of a rock legend

28.11.07
Jeff Beck may not have hit the big time as consistently as fellow Yardbirds Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page, but his trail through rock 'n' roll is mythic enough.... more

More sweat please, Craig

16.10.07
Craig David's six show residency at Ronnie Scott's shows that the formerly fresh-faced singer has grown up.... more

Good-humoured diva

05.09.07
Everything Marlena Shaw touches turns to jazz and young singers should study her artful pacing and easy-going audience control.... more

Funky virtuoso

25.07.07
Bankable near-jazz stars are the face of the new Ronnie Scott's, and singer-guitarist Jose Feliciano is the latest artist to benefit.... more

What's wrong at Ronnie's?

26.06.07
A year to the day since it reopened its doors there are complaints that the celebrated jazz club has lost its heart and fears that it's set to be taken over.... more

Winehouse a hit in the jazz world

08.05.07
She may have lost to Arctic Monkeys at the Brit Awards but Amy Winehouse has at last won a trophy for her acclaimed album Back To Black.... more

Eastwood's All-Star line-up

02.05.07
Kyle Eastwood, The eldest son of Hollywood star Clint Eastwood performs a one-off gig at Ronnie Scott’s on Thursday.... more

Devotion to jazz sets Allyson apart

28.03.07
Karrin Allyson is a bit special. Not only is her voice warm, husky-edged and in tune, but her devotion to the jazz tradition, sets her apart from most other children of the Seventies.... more

Legend brings his funky jazz to town

21.02.07
Musical director to the late, great James Brown, Pee Wee Ellis is bringing his funky sounding jazz to Ronnie Scott's.... more

Critics choice: Top five gigs

19.01.07
With star-packed events at Ronnie Scott's and the Roundhouse featuring Jamie Cullum, Paul Weller and Bill Wyman, to Swedish electropop at the Mean Fiddler, there is something for everyone.... more

Critic's choice: New Year's Eve jazz gigs

28.12.06
Jack Massarik picks five groovy jazz gigs to see in the New Year and riff you into 2007.... more

CDs of the week

24.11.06
Take That are back with polite, mature pop, Jay-Z delivers his eighth studio album and a double-disc retrospective marks the 10th anniversary of Ronnie Scott's death.... more

Left in the dark at Ronnie's

30.08.06
It wouldn't have been difficult to have improved on the horrible spaghetti Bolognese at Ronnie Scott's but that seems to be beyond the capability of the new management. ... more

Very chic but so very cold

07.08.06
Gig review: Prim is a word seldom applied to Chick Corea, but after 20 minutes of sedate chamber-jazz by the great US pianist, numbness began to set in and Jack Massarik was left wondering where all the Friday-night fever had gone.... more

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