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RONNIE SCOTT'S JAZZ FARRAGO

COMPILATION OF FEATURES FROM JAZZ AT RONNIE SCOTT'S MAGAZINE

Ronnie Scott ’s Club was founded by the eponymous Ronnie Scott, tenor saxophonist and Pete King, also tenor sax. They first met when Pete was a member of a semi professional band playing at the St. Pancras Town Hall and later were colleagues in drummer Jack Parnell’s band. From their first casual meeting eventually emerged the foundation of Ronnie Scott’s Club which was to become an institution known world-wide.

  
   
 
 
 

This book is drawn from Jazz At Ronnie Scott’s, the Club’s house magazine known as JARS, published between 1979-2006 under editorship of Jim Godbolt.


The book draws from the vast material in those issues and collates profiles of the Club’s principals and the assortment of memorable characters who were associated with the Club; facts of jazz history; humorous writing; gossip columns and interviews with celebrities like Spike Milligan, Charlie Watts, Barbara Windsor and Michael Parkinson.


This entertaining volume is a unique document of ‘behind the scenes’ activities of the world’s most famous jazz venue. In addition to contributions by acknowledged experts on jazz music, the book’s pages are graced by the poems of Ron Rubin and drawings by such brilliant artists as Trog, Nemethy, Picton, Pennington and Monty Sunshine.