Ronnie Scott's opens

October 1959: Number 29 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicAn East End Londoner, Ronnie Scott was a UK jazz star in the 1950s, playing tenor sax with an assurance that rivalled the dominant Americans. But he dreamed of a London jazz club like those on New York's 52nd Street, which he'd visited as a dance band player on the transatlantic liners. In October 1959, he and former sax partner Pete King launched Ronnie Scott's in a Chinatown basement. The club – now ...

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