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BIOGRAPHY | MEDIA SECTION | GALLERY SECTION | PRESS RELEASES
“Mingling UK jazz generations..and featuring a legion of nonchalant studio hypertechnicians, the band play with an explosive relish”
“…bravura and punchy swing” The Guardian
“Top class Big Band” Timeout
"Crammed on to the stage at Ronnie Scott’s, the musicians supply a series of controlled detonations in which instrumental flair goes hand in hand with joie de vivre." The Times
In Pete Long, reeds player, raconteur, bandleader and all-round wit, we have a genuine home-grown treasure. If his projects – Echoes of Ellington chief among them – have attracted few column inches in the past, it is partly because Long, who knows this music inside out, appears to wear his expertise so lightly. In another life, he might easily have been a vaudeville entertainer.
Audiences have been consistently amazed by the ebullience of the orchestra- whether jazz repertoire or cutting edge, the Ronnie Scott’s Orchestra has never failed to entertain, amaze and excite.
Clive Davis, The Times
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