Mingus Big Band – at Ronnie Scott’s Nov 26 to Dec 1

RONNIE SCOTT’S AUTUMN HIGHLIGHTS. A strong autumn of programming at Ronnie Scott’s has just been announced. There are a couple of waiting-to-sign TBC-gaps, but everything listed on this page is now on sale.

The late show is also attracting all sorts of folk to jam, or just to hang. Recent late show attenders: Wynton Marsalis with several members of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Macy Gray, Freddy Cole, Jamie Cullum and Joss Stone, the entire Beyoncé band and the Michael Buble Big Band.

Aug 20-21 Wayne Krantz Trio (with Tim Lefebvre bass and Nate Wood drums)

Aug 22-24 Booker T Jones (of Booker T & The MGs; 50th Anniversary of Green Onions)

Sept 3-4 Claire Martin & Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

Sept 5-6 Jay Phelps Big Band feat. Claire Teal

Sept 9 Jason Rebello Band (Joy Rose vocals, Troy Miller drums, Karl Rasheed-Abel bass and Paul Stacey guitar)

Sept 10-12 Bireli Lagrene

Sept 13-15 Frank Sinatra Jnr Sings Sinatra

Sept 17-18 Patricia Barber (With Larry Kohut bass and John Kregor guitar)

Sept 23 Funmi Olawumi (Traditional and contemporary Yoruba music from founder of the Yoruba Womens Choir, creating Faaji music from a mix of influences inc juju, afrobeat & fuji

Sept 24-25 Banda Black Rio (Gilles Peterson feted 70’s jazz-funk-samba band from Rio)

Sept 26-27 John Williams & John Etheridge

Sept 28-29 Ian Shaw with the Phil Ware Trio + Special Guest Guy Barker

Oct 2-3 TBC

Oct 4-6 Hiromi; The Trio Project (with Steve Smith and Anthony Jackson)

Oct 8-10 Alison Moyet (already sold out)

Oct 11-13 TBC

Oct 15-17 Avishai Cohen Seven Seas (with Amir Bresler drums, Omri Mor piano)

Oct 18-19 Joe Lovano/Dave Douglas Sound Prints Quintet (Lawrence Fields piano, Linda Oh bass, and Joey Baron drums. Originals and brand new Wayne Shorter compositions)

Oct 21-22 Nathan Haines

Oct 23-24 The Bad Plus

Oct 25-26 Steve Smith & Vital Information

Oct 27 Jeff Lorber

Oct 29-Nov 2 Stacey Kent

Nov 5-6 An Evening With Dianne Reeves (with Peter Martin piano, Romero Lubambo guitar, Reginald Veal bass and Terreon Gully drums)

Nov 8-9 Terence Blanchard

Nov 15-16 Dee Dee Bridgewater (Craig Handy saxes, Edsel Gomez -keys, Kenneth Davis – bass, Kenneth Phelps drums, Laurence Godfrin keys)

Nov 19-24 Mario Biondi

Nov 26-Dec 1 The Mingus Big Band (two shows a night)

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