Jazz Articles

Various Artists: A New Generation - Twelve Urban Jazz Grooves

by Ian Nicolson
March 1, 1999

Apart from its central Soho location (just up the road from Ronnie Scott's) and its reputation for prestige and exciting food, Terence Conran's mega café Mezzo has also being bolting on some class jazz to its weekday line-ups for a while now. And although neither the club nor the regular clientele are as committed to the music as the fans who have made Soho's Pizza Express, Kettners (and Ronnies itself) into London jazz meccas, there's no getting around the fact ...