Anybody still around that remembers Ronnie's old club in the basement in Gerrard Street? I have great memories of the all night sessions there: Ronnie, Tubby, Jimmy Deuchar, Stan Tracy, Phil Seaman et al. Great music and great nights. 60 years later I'm still trying to catch up on the sleep!
Reply to Joejohnson…….YES!!…I was there,I also went to 100 Oxford street known as Victor Feldman Club 1947,and the Club 11 opposite the Windmill Theatre,1948,and in 1951 the 51 Club opposite Leicester Square underground Station….I bought a vibraphone from Bill Lesage.Now in my 93rd year,and still playing Ladybird,and Good Bait!! on my Rowland 2000….Blossom Dearie was the last time that I was at Ronnie Scott’s club 1966.
i'm a tenor player...had heard of him, but never had heard him. really like his tone. kinda like 70s sonny rollins...it's a broad,deep sound. not easy to do on tenor. he's got the feeling and i like the rhodes with it.
Wish these guys were my children's ages rather than mine or my dads. Long live jazz! I'm comforted when I hear a young men or women play from their soul the fluency and creativity of musicians like these. Doesn't matter who you are or where in the world you come from. I can mention the U.S., Canada, The UK, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, etc; there are breath taking Jazz players through out the world. Globalism is a nightmare, but letting music flow freely from all times in the 20th cen. & beyond will make the recording companies and their up-jump controllers realize they'll have better sales if they produce something other that the current Neanderthal level of creativity currently displayed in popular music.
Really nice to watch - first time seeing Ronnie Scott play actually - He is a really nice player for sure. I watched the John Coltrane verison, then the Stan Getz Version right b4 I watched this one, what I really found interesting was the way that Coltrane and Getz put something other than the notes or tones or techniques into the piece. They really draw you in to the emotion and MAKE you feel the piece where with Scott I was listening to music being played without really feeling it all.
Like SciBucks I listed to Trane, then Getz, then came to Ronnie Scott here. He takes a much shorter solo, but gets alot into it. Gets around the horn! Would have been nice to hear him stretch it out.
After all these years I just found out Ronnie played the tenor solo on Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love." I always thought it was Stan Getz. Well, there you go!
That's some fast fast playing! I wonder how this contrasted with other music in the 80's such as Kiss, Flashdance tracks, Hall & Oates. Would most people have liked this?
Hank Mobley is right. Ronnie was so much better than many of those more famous. He used to joke about hurting his back bending over backwards to please Stan Getz. Well there is a moral there. A long-standing prejudice in favour of US artists. I saw Ronnie so many times in the 1960s along with many of the great US names appearing at the club. He was just as good as most but more self-effacing.
@warriorprince1010 this is a question that if the person don´t know the answer by his own soul and ears, he will never know the answer! It´s like questioning why Bach is great...there´s not a single answer who would fit completely.
Great video, thanks for posting this. Was wondering if you knew who he bassist was? I'm a Contrabassist studying jazz and would love to hear some more of this guy's playing.
I don't think so... If you see him breathe almost desperate for air afterwards, it just seems he uses his lungs... But his throat is going wild, so I don't know for sure.
