Curtis Stigers | Jazz review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonMiddle age suits Curtis Stigers better than his long-haired youth. Immaculate in tie, suit and breast-pocket handkerchief, he is smack bang in fashion, making the kind of Blue Note post-bop to which 1960s ad executives sipped martinis. He comes across like an amalgam of Mad Men characters Roger Sterling and Jimmy Barrett.His band hits its stride immediately with Arthur Crudup's That's All Right Mama. John "Scrapper" Sneider's cool, poised trumpet solo (quoting Gil Evans) ...

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