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  • Ronnie Scott’s is one of the world’s most famous, renowned and respected music venues. This massively talented music booking team at the sharp-end of programming the iconic club are, of course, dedicated to the music, and to the business of building on a unique heritage and brand that dates back to the year that Miles Davis released ‘Kind of Blue’.Though their roles are diverse, James, Nick, Paul, Sarah and Simon have one big thing in common – a deep passion for music. Each has shared a favourite recording as their ‘One LP’.  In the image and text, they offer an insight into an album that they love, and share with us something of what inspires them to do what they do.Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
  • The album is ‘Atomic Mr Basie’; count Basie and his orchestra.  All the arrangements were done by Neal Hefti and it’s one of the most explosive albums.  It sums up Count Basie; it sums up the Atomic style.{quote}The album's recorded in an amazing way, the original one I’ve got here, if you turn the right speaker you get to hear the rhythm section and if you turn the other speaker you just get to hear the band.  So you can really get inside it. Count Basie himself playing on this, Kid from Red Bank, is one of the most brilliant pieces and the arrangements are stunning.  It’s a great jazz album.{quote}James Pearson: Ronnie Scott's, London, 5th February 2015Count Basie: The Atomic Mr. Basie  released 1958
  • :I’ve brought along the album ‘Voodoo’ by D’Angelo; funnily enough it was 15 years old yesterday.  It’s just an album that I think completely reinvented R & B.  I’m not really that big a fan of R & B but I think what he did was bring so many different elements of jazz, funk, soul, even hip-hop.  It’s really informed my musical tastes going forward into all those different types of genres.I think he just worked with the best musicians; the tracks are amazing.  He worked with guys like Pino Palladino, Roy Hargrove, Questlove and Charlie Hunter, people like that.  I think it’s a special album, one that I keep coming back to and listening over and over again.  You always find different things in it, so it definitely is a very special album for me.{quote}Nick Lewis: Ronnie Scott's, London, 5th February 2015D'Angelo: Voodoo released 2000Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
  • “The album is Horace Silver, the artist, and it’s called Silver N’ Wood.  It’s one of a series of albums he recorded in the late 70’s.  Basically his quintet was augmented by other woodwinds and instrumentation, which was quite different to what he normally did.  He normally composed for a quintet and he felt comfortable with that format.  So, with the orchestration on this series of albums on Blue Note, he enlisted the help of Wade Marcus to do the orchestration to help out.  Why I chose it is because these series of albums, as with most Horace Silver albums, are very uplifting to play.  They make you feel good about yourself.  There’s something energising about Horace Silver’s music.It was around the time I was coming to Ronnie’s for the first time.  I came to Ronnie’s for the first time in 72 and saw Zoot Simms there and lots of other fantastic musicians of that period.  I came to see Horace Silver’s quintet with Larry Schneider and Tom Harrell, fantastic line up.  This music composed for this series of albums, which never came out on CD, was issued shortly after that period.  So we’re talking about 74 onwards is when I saw the band.  Glorious music, trumpet and tenor front line with the rhythm section and Horace’s music, as ever with this augmented line up, was very uplifting.  Makes me want to dance when I hear it.”Paul Pace: Ronnie Scott's, London, 5th February 2015Horace Silver: Silver 'n' Wood released 1976Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
  • {quote}This album is by Gregg Diamond and the Bionic Boogie.  I picked it specifically just for the one song ‘Hot Butterfly’.  I remember when I first heard the song; I thought it was such a fantastic song, so it’s really just that song that I love.  Looking at the album it’s just a classic of the late 70’s lack of modesty but the song has Luther Vandross singing it.  There’s no one really that beats his vocals in the soul world.  It’s just good disco at its prime.{quote}Sarah Weller: Ronnie Scott's, London, 5th February 2015Greg Diamond: Bionic Boogie released 1977Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
  • {quote}{quote}It’s an album called ‘Somethin' Else’ by Cannonball Adderley.  I’ve had quite a bit of time in the rock business but then I never really felt at home.  As soon as I leaned over into jazz I felt very much that this is where I’m supposed to be. I really love being in the jazz business and continue to be in the jazz business.  I used to go to jazz gigs in pubs when growing up in the North, but I never really knew much about the bigger names, my father was a trad fan, he didn’t think that much of the modern stuff so I was a bit in the dark and looking for guidance. Knowing the artists wasn’t as easy as it is with rock artists or pop artists, they were all over the radio; modern jazz was just not as accessible. So, much as I knew that I really liked jazz and went to pub jazz gigs, I was really struggling to buy albums that would reflect what I liked.   I came across this album many years ago and I played this and thought ‘that’s the stuff I really like’.  So it became a kind of introduction that set you off in a direction that you go ‘so ok, what else came around this?’. Then that leads you into Miles Davis. It leads you into John Coltrane and next thing you know you are whistling Pharoah Sanders. It came out in 1958 and I think I always looked on it as ‘Kind of Blues’ slightly cooler, older brother strangely enough.  I quite liked that because it came out a year before and Cannonball and Miles are on the album.So because it was my introduction to what became a huge part of my life, the jazz world, I’ve always looked upon it very very fondly.{quote} Simon Cooke: Ronnie Scott's, London, 22nd January 2015Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else released 1958Simon Cooke - Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
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