Ronnie Scott (left) with Tubby Hayes.

Ronnie Scott (January 28, 1927 – December 23, 1996) was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz-club owner. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1003x773, 58 KB)Ronnie Scott (left) and Tubby Hayes. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1003x773, 58 KB)Ronnie Scott (left) and Tubby Hayes. ... Edward Tubby Hayes (1935-1973} was a British jazz tenor saxophone player. ... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... A Yanagisawa tenor sax. ...

Life and career

Born Ronald Schatt in East London, Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of sixteen. he toured with Johnny Claes, the trumpeter, from 1944 to 1945, and with Ted Heath in 1946, as well as working with Ambrose, Cab Kaye, and Tito Burns. He was involved in the short-lived musicians' co-operative Club Eleven band and club (1948–1950), with Johnny Dankworth and others, and was a member of the generation of British musicians who worked on the Cunard liner Queen Mary (intermittently 1946–c. 1950) in order to visit New York and hear the new music directly. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internally called HT-7U) is a project being undertaken to construct an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Johnny Claes was a Formula One driver from Belgium. ... You might be looking for: Edward Heath (1916–2005) — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ... Saint Ambrose, (Latin: Sanctus Ambrosius, Ambrosius episcopus Mediolanensis; Italian: SantAmbrogio) (c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir John Dankworth CBE Born in London, England, in 1927, was brought up in a musical environment amongst a family of musicians. ... RMS Queen Mary was a Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

In 1952 Scott joined Jack Parnell's orchestra, then led his own nine-piece group from 1953 to 1956. He co-led the Jazz Couriers with Tubby Hayes from 1957 to 1959, and was leader of a quartet including Stan Tracey (1960–1967), was part of the Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band which toured Europe extensively (1967–69), an octet including John Surman and Kenny Wheeler (1968–1969), and a trio including Mike Carr (1971–1975). He then went on to lead various groups, most of which included John Critchinson on keyboards and Martin Drew on drums. John Russell Jack Parnell (born 6 August 1923) is an English bandleader and musician. ... Edward Tubby Hayes (1935-1973} was a British jazz tenor saxophone player. ... Stanley William Tracey (born in Tooting, London on December 30, 1926) is a UK jazz pianist and composer, most influenced by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. ... Kenny Clarke (born January 9, 1914 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. ... François Boland(born November 6, 1929 in Namur Belgium; died August 12, 2005 in Geneva) was a classically trained Belgian jazz composer and pianist. ... John Douglas Surman (born on 30 August 1944 in Tavistock, England), is a jazz saxophone, clarinet and synthesizer player. ... Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler (born 14th January 1930, Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s. ... Mike Carr (b. ...

Scott was among the earliest British musicians to be influenced in his playing style by Charlie Parker and other bebop musicians. His playing was much admired on both sides of the Atlantic, Charles Mingus saying of him in 1961: "Of the white boys, Ronnie Scott gets closer to the negro blues feeling, the way Zoot Sims does."^[1] Charlie Parker Charles Bird Parker, Jr. ... Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. ... Charles Mingus (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979), also known as Charlie Mingus, was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. ...

Despite his central position in the British jazz scene, Scott recorded infrequently during the last few decades of his career. He suffered periods of depression and, while recovering slowly from surgery for tooth implants, died accidentally from a mixture of brandy and prescription sleeping tablets - at the age of sixty-nine. At the subsequent inquest in to his death, the coroner's verdict was "death by misadventure". [1] Depression, or a depressed mood, may in everyday English refer to a state of melancholia, unhappiness or sadness, or to a relatively minor downturn in mood that may last only a few hours or days. ...

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club at 47 Frith Street, Soho, London.

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Scott is perhaps best remembered for co-founding the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, which opened on October 30, 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district, later moving to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street in 1965. The original venue continued in operation as the "Old Place" until the lease ran out in 1967, and was used for performances by the up and coming generation of domestic musicians. During this period he also did occasional session work; his best-known work here is the solo on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna". October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gerrard Street is in the Chinatown area of London, England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Soho is an area of central Londons West End, in the borough of the City of Westminster. ... Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club at 47 Frith Street. ... The Beatles were a highly influential English rock n roll band from Liverpool. ... Lady Madonna is a song by The Beatles. ...

The club, mainly run by Pete King, Scott's business partner, by now had become the premier British venue for live jazz. It achieved this position mainly by negotiating with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and the British Musicians' Union to remove the complete ban on American jazz musicians working in the U.K., and replaced it with an exchange system. Zoot Sims was the club's first transatlantic visitor in 1962, and was succeeded by many others (often saxophonists, such as Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt) in the years that followed. Many UK jazz musicians were also regularly featured, including Tubby Hayes and Dick Morrissey who would both drop in for jam sessions with the visiting stars. In the mid-sixties, Ernest Ranglin was the house guitarist. The club's house pianist until 1967 was Stan Tracey. The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) is a labor union of professional musicians in the United States and Canada. ... The Musicians Union of the United Kingdom represents the interests of working musicians. ... UK redirects here. ... John Haley Zoot Sims was an American jazz musician. ... John Arnold Griffin III (born in 1928) is an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist. ... Lee Konitz (born 1927 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American jazz composer and saxophone player. ... An early Rollins picture graces the cover of Volume One Theodore Walter Sonny Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. ... Sonny Stitt, a quintessential bop saxophonist. ... Edward Tubby Hayes (1935-1973} was a British jazz tenor saxophone player. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Ernest Ranglin (born 1932) is an important Jamaican musician. ...

Scott regularly acted as the club's Master of Ceremonies, and was (in)famous for his repertoire of jokes, asides and one-liners. MC redirects here. ...

After Scott's death, King continued to run the club for a further nine years, before selling the club to theatre impresario Sally Greene in June 2005.

Discography

• 1948: Boppin' at Esquire (indigo)
• 1958: The Couriers of Jazz! (Carlton/Fresh Sounds)
• 1965: The Night Is Scott and You're So Swingable (Redial)
• 1965: When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give it to You (Jazz House)
• 1969: Live at Ronnie Scott's (Columbia)
• 1977: Serious Gold (Pye)
• 1990: Never Pat a Burning Dog (Jazz House)
• 1997: If I Want Your Opinion (Jazz House)
• 1997: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Jazz House)
• 2000: Boppin' at Esquire (Indigo)
• 2002: Ronnie Scott Live at the Jazz Club (Time Music)

External links

• Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, & Brian Priestley. Jazz: The Rough Guide. ISBN 1-85828-528-3
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
• Ronnie Scott — biography by Jason Ankeny for All Music Guide
• Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club website

Notes

1. ^ "Ronnie Scott", Brian Priestley, in Carr et al.

See also

• List of jazz clubs