Ronnie Scott
Born: 1927
The son of a musician, Scott became a saxophonist in his teens. Eventually, as the owner of the UK’s most famous jazz club, his name was virtually synonymous with jazz in the country. Working on the Atlantic oceanliners in the late 1940s, Scott got to hear modern jazz being played by the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis at first hand.
He returned to London convinced that he would play this same kind of jazz in Britain, even if there was not yet a public ready to hear it…. Continue