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Tom Browne-Ronnie Laws Play Ronnie Scotts, London

Tom Browne-Ronnie Laws Play Ronnie Scotts, London

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Jazz has always drawn nourishment from dance rhythms, yet needs to be careful it doesn't drown in them. The fusion of waspish keyboards and funkadelic bass that saxophonist Ronnie Laws surfed to crossover success came close to that dangerous point, but on his best recordings and especially in live performance he could conjure soulful licks and trenchant lines with the enterprise and power of the best soul singers. This gig twinned him with trumpeter Tom Browne—his “Funkin' for Jamaica" is ...

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