Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (2017), 47 Frith Street, London
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (2014)

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is an existing since 1959, known Jazz - Club in London .

history

The club opened on October 30, 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was owned and managed by jazz musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King . In 1965 the company moved to larger premises at nearby 47 Frith Street. The original venue remained in use for the jazz club's youth work until the lease expired in 1967.

Zoot Sims was the first transatlantic guest musician in 1962. He was followed by numerous other musicians (often saxophonists who admired Scott and King, who were tenor saxophonists themselves, such as Johnny Griffin , Lee Konitz , Sonny Rollins , Sonny Stitt ). Many UK jazz musicians were also regular guests, including Tubby Hayes and Dick Morrissey , both of whom often came on for jam sessions with the guest stars. In the mid-1960s, Ernest Ranglin was the house guitarist. Stan Tracey was resident pianist until 1967 . For nearly 30 years, Ronnie Scott’s hosted a Christmas concert by George Melly and John Chilton's Feetwarmers. Ronnie's was also the location of Jimi Hendrix 's last live performance on September 16, 1970 (with Eric Burdon ) two days before Hendrix's death on September 18, 1970.

Scott usually took on the role of Master of Ceremonies . He was "(in) famous" for his repertoire of jokes, personalities and sayings. After Scott's demise, King ran the club for nine years before selling it to theater entrepreneur Sally Greene in June 2005.

In 2009, “Ronnie Scott's” was named by a jury at the Brecon Jazz Festival as one of the twelve most important jazz venues in Great Britain and won third prize in the audience's choice.

House musician

Many of the guest musicians performing at Ronnie Scott's are soloists who toured without their own rhythm section or who made a detour as members of larger bands. So they needed the house band to accompany them. Occasionally these were identical to the members of various bands that Ronnie Scott led. The data can overlap.

Many of them were already there or later became leading figures on the British jazz scene. Since 2006 "The Ronnie Scott's Allstars" consist of young talents from the British jazz scene, including the three regular musicians of the house, James Pearson , Sam Burgess and Chris Dagley .

drummer
Pianists
Other instruments
Other regular musicians since 2006

Steve Rushton (drums), Alex Garnett (sax), Alistair White (trombone), Gary Baldwin (Hammond), Al Cherry (guitar), Matt Home (drums), Alan Barnes (sax), Natalie Williams (vocals), Ralph Salmins (Drums), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Mark Smith (bass), James Nisbet (guitar), Pete Long (sax), Gerard Presencer (trumpet), Dave O'Higgins, Nina Ferro, Alec Dankworth , Steve Fishwick and others.

Live albums recorded in the club

literature

Web links

Commons : Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Buckingham Palace hits right note with jazz fans", London Evening Standard (August 3, 2009)
  2. ^ "Most important jazz venue named", BBC News (Aug 7, 2009)
  3. ↑ In the first few decades of the club, it was hardly possible for American bands to find gigs in Great Britain due to the strength of the British musicians' union; the combination with British musicians was union compliant.
  4. ↑ David Taylor's British jazz web site ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vzone.virgin.net
  5. ^ Obituary in The Independent ( Memento April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b c d Cf. Ulrich Kurth The 4th Quarter of the Triad: Tony Oxley. Five decades of improvised music. Hofheim am Taunus 2011, p. 52f.