Wednesday, October 16, 2024

15 October 2024 London: Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club

 


We always enjoy live music and try to see shows everywhere we go.  Ronnie Scott's is an iconic Jazz Club has been going since 1959.  The list of artists who have played there is a list of all of the all stars.  Just a few for perspective: Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton Van Morrison, Sting, Wynton Marsalis, Led Zeppelin, Stan Gets, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Hendricks, Amy Winehouse, Nona Simone and so many more!  We booked seats for the Christian Sands Trio show.  Cristian Sands played a wicked piano, his brother, Ryan, was on the drums and they also had a stand up bass player Jonathan Muir-Cotton.  The concert was fantastic opening with "Can't Find My Way Home" by Steve Winwood.  Then a few original tunes, Ain't That the Same, Serenade of an Angel, MMC (Mamma's Mac 'n Cheese), Strange Meadow Lark (a Dave Brubeck Song).  They finished up with a bit of Funk, a bit of Hip Hop and a bit of jazz with Brazil


A pub down the street from us


I see faces


Lotus dealer


Old Lotus


These scales of Justice are not blind


Serious gates


There is lots going on at Burlington House


Woven mushrooms at Fortnum and Mason's


A serious greeting


Woven cow


It is all about tea


Flying teacups


Hmmmm, which to choose?


Here is a fine selection


What time is it?  Time to buy tea


The one and only Ernest Shackleton 


Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go out in the world and don't come back


Aliens!


Is Snap Chat still a thing?


Dome of exploration


Put up your dukes


Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club


A very cozy atmosphere


Pictures of legends line the walls


Dizzy Gillespie


Charlie Parker


More stars


A pair of wild ones at the bar


We were right up front, in the splash zone.  We got Jazz all over ourselves


A stately MC


Christian Sands on piano


Jonathan Muir-Cotton on bass



  It has been 2 years and 132 days since we began our Migration