Critics Choice Ambulance Success at Ronnie Scott's

The reviews for their debut album "Accident and Insurgency" have been superb across the jazz and general music press with four and five star ratings aplenty. Comments on this groundbreaking UK jazz release include:

The Scotsman

Intelligent and probing contemporary jazz...

The Times

Varied, thoughtful and consistently engaging.

Jazzwise

A joyous recording indeed.

Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance this week played a highly-charged and entertaining three dates at Ronnie Scott's with full line up including:

Arnie Somogyi - double bass; Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn; Paul Booth - tenor and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet; Tim Lapthorn - piano, Fender Rhodes, melodica; Dave Smith - drums; Rob Townsend - tenor and soprano saxophones, alto flute, bass clarinet, laptop

The dates made Critics Choice in Time Out with the publication stating:

"London-based Polish/Norwegian bassist Arnie Somogyi leads his cheekily named band that mix snapping grooves, archly syncopated arrangements and top-drawer improvising, all as on his superb new album 'Accident And Insurgency'. Star turn is trumpeter Eddie Henderson - famously a physician before Miles (Davis) encouraged him to be a musician - best known for his work with Herbie Hancock's 'Mwandishi' sextet and bound to add a high-gloss sheen to this killer band. First of three nights."

There was also a well-attended in-store performance (minus Eddie Henderson) at Ray's Jazz at Foyle's on Charing Cross Road on Tuesday 5 February, 2008.

Meanwhile, their date at the Southport Jazz Festival was extremely well-received with many citing it as the performance of the event. Local newspaper The Champion was of the opined that "Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance left the large and appreciative crowd at Southport's Arts Centre in no doubt that here is talent that is going straight to the top." 

"In all their songs, the band are driven forward by Somogyi's bass, giving be-bop a modernist twist in a way not seen since Charlie Mingus thumbed the strings."

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