The Ronnie Scott's Big Band Featuring Peter Grant

Friday 21st September - Saturday 22nd September
£26.00

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Ronnie Scott's Big Band

Formed last summer to co-incide with the relaunch of the club, under the musical directorship of Pete Long, the Big Band has fast become one of the most popular in the country. Over these two nights, the big band will be featuring some of the music it has performed over the past 6 months. This will include music from the shows dedicated to the music of Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Tubby Hayes and the Rat Pack.

Peter Grant

There are not many 20-year-old northern lads who spent their adolescence daydreaming of singing like Sinatra on their local clubs circuit. But then again, there are not many 18-year-old northern lads who combine a voice worthy of Tony Bennett and looks that wouldn’t seem out of place in a Paul Smith ad. In short, there are not many lads like Peter Grant, in the north or anywhere else. his debut album, is literally astounding. Peter has used that voice to give an ultra cool lounge makeover to songs like Barry White’s “My First, My Last, My Everything” and the Scott Walker’s “Joanna” with under-appreciated classics like “On Days Like These” from The Italian Job and “The Fool on the Hill” slipped in between. “I love these songs,” says Peter, who also loves listening to singer songwriters to soul through to hip-hop and free jazz. “No one ever told me to listen to this kind of music, it’s just what I listened to. I also write my own songs. I don’t want to be a pop star, I want to be a singer of great songs.”