Happy 50th birthday Ronnie Scott's

This month, the world's most famous jazz club celebrates five decades of playing host to an extraordinary procession of musical legendsFifty years ago this month, what was to become the most famous jazz club on the planet – Ronnie Scott's – staged its first gig. The location wasn't today's glitzy Frith Street supper club, with its soft-lit ambiance, plush furnishings and coolly expert young bar staff, but a dingy basement around the corner in Soho's Chinatown, where the stage could...

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