Just tune in and let the band take care of the rest

alwaysred 7 Feb 2015

"Back in the day at Ronnie Scott's club in London, when artists were booked on the personal whims of the founding proprietors Scott and Pete King without much regard for the box office, the same performers would reappear year after year with the regularity of old friends turning up to reunions. One such was the pianist and composer Cedar Walton, who has died aged 79. Like almost all the regular favourites at Ronnie's in the Scott-King era, Walton was a class jazz act who could play intelligent, probing bebop and swing-based music in his sleep, but who refashioned familiar jazz traditions in his own ways. Walton's engrossing performances might open on a brisk blues that would develop first in silvery, balletic treble melodies and build to chord-thumping climaxes." http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/23/cedar-walton

RIP 26 Aug 2013