Bill Laurance: a pianist, composer, and an original member of the GRAMMY award-winning ensemble Snarky Puppy, has previously given synthesizers and orchestral instrumentation vital roles within his studio recordings. On Live at Ronnie Scott’s, he, bassist Jon Harvey, and drummer Marijus Aleksa take compositions written and arranged with such instrumentation in mind into a simpler sonic setting. Laurance returns key melodies, harmonies and phrases to the instrument upon which he first composed them, while Harvey and Aleksa streamline the rhythm section, finding characterful ways to serve each song and expressive ways to develop them further, with dynamic solos and sonic textures unique to their respective set-up and preferences.