| Date & Time: | Monday, November 24, 2008
- Wednesday, November 26, 2008
8:30 PM |
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Ronnie Scott's is used to having big names pass through its doors, but it isn't often that a line-up such as this comes anyone's way. The combination of pianist John Beasley, drummer Jeff 'Tain' Watts, bassist Buster Williams and reeds player Bennie Maupin is a dream come true for jazz fans the world over, and their performance here is a special moment for London's best jazz venue. Their collective CVs probably contain the names of most of the jazz musicians who have played in the last fifty years, and they are stunning players in their own right, with dozens of recordings and thousands of performances between them. Their music is the product of four lives spent at the very top of their game, honed by years of tireless practice and perfected on bandstands across the world. An unmissable opportunity to witness a truly all-star ensemble.
John Beasley “All-Star” Quartet
Buster Williams | Bennie Maupin |Jeff “Tain” Watts | John Beasley
RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB
WHO:
Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock’s Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to play music from Beasley’s 2009 GRAMMY considered latest CD Letter to Herbie, a tribute album to Herbie Hancock.
WHAT:
Beasley’s All-Star Jazz Circle brings the talent of Hancock’s creative and groundbreaking Sextet and the spirit of those indelible performances to Ronnie Scott’s with eclectic arrangements of Hancock’s tunes and a few of Beasley’s songs. New audiences will be sure to leave delighted by this series of concerts.
Monday November 24 to Wednesday 26, 2008
2 shows: 8.30pm and 10.30pm
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club - 47 Frith Street, Soho, London
www.ronniescotts.co.uk/ - 44 (0) 20 7439 0747
Cost: £25, £35, £40
Beasley, the onetime keyboardist for Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, reflects a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice. – Los Angeles Times
John Beasley “All-Star” Quartet
Buster Williams | Bennie Maupin |Jeff “Tain” Watts | John Beasley
RONNIE SCOTT’S JAZZ CLUB
WHO:
Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock’s Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to play music from Beasley’s 2009 GRAMMY considered latest CD Letter to Herbie, a tribute album to Herbie Hancock.
WHAT:
Beasley’s All-Star Jazz Circle brings the talent of Hancock’s creative and groundbreaking Sextet and the spirit of those indelible performances to Ronnie Scott’s with eclectic arrangements of Hancock’s tunes and a few of Beasley’s songs. New audiences will be sure to leave delighted by this series of concerts.
Monday November 24 to Wednesday 26, 2008
2 shows: 8.30pm and 10.30pm
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club - 47 Frith Street, Soho, London
www.ronniescotts.co.uk/ - 44 (0) 20 7439 0747
Cost: £25, £35, £40
Beasley, the onetime keyboardist for Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, reflects a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice. – Los Angeles Times
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