Jazz breaking news: Peter Ind celebrates in style with Ian Shaw and Liane Carroll at Ronnie Scott’s
Friday, July 26, 2013
Influential British bass player and record producer Peter Ind (pictured left) celebrates his 85th birthday on Sunday 28 July with a lunchtime gig at Ronnie Scott’s, hosted by Ian Shaw.
He will perform with Shaw and guitarist David Preston in the trio heard on Shaw’s The Abbey Road Sessions album and they will be joined by an exciting guest line-up, including Liane Carroll, Peter King and Gary Crosby, who will play a unique double bass duo with Ind.
Ind’s performing career includes performing with some of the biggest names in post-war jazz. After working his passage in the house band on the Queen Mary from 1949-51, he settled in New York City, playing with the top musicians of the day, including Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, Buddy Rich, Booker Ervin, Mal Waldron, and Slim Gaillard. He also began producing in the 1950s, recording sessions with Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan, and Booker Little, and setting up his own label.
Having spent much of the 1960s performing and recording in California, he returned to London in the 1970s, setting up Wave Studios in Hoxton, and Wave Records, the latter of which continues today. He played on the European scene with Martin Taylor, Louis Stewart and Stephane Grapelli, before founding east London’s Bass Clef club in 1984, which flourished for several years until forced to close after a tax dispute. Since then he has been writing, both about jazz, with a book about Lennie Tristano and the state of jazz in 1950s New York, and his environmental interests. He is also a painter and ceramics expert.
– Matthew Wright
Peter Ind and friends, ft. Ian Shaw, Liane Carroll, Peter King, Gary Crosby and David Preston, Ronnie Scott’s (Sunday 28 July, 12pm). Phone 0207 4390747 for tickets, or go to www.ronniescotts.co.uk