Julian Joseph All-Star Band – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonThere was the sense of a special occasion at Ronnie Scott's for the first of pianist, bandleader and broadcaster Julian Joseph's three big-band shows at the club. The curious, the devoted, the press, and this gifted, popular and high-achieving pianist's own coterie were hanging off the walls. The temperature was also racked up by the sight of so many spotlit chairs on the bandstand. Big bands on the grand scale of that widescreen jazz style's golden age are a rarity these d...

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