Happy 50th, Ronnie Scott's

Half a decade ago, a nightclub opened that would change British music for ever. John Fordham talks about Ronnie Scott's with some of the jazz legends who played there over the yearsWhen I first heard jazz, I just liked the sound of its voice, the way it would say one thing and mean another, nonchalantly leave stories hanging in the air, recoil at sentiment – and occasionally not turn up at all. The more people told me not to get involved with such an unstable partner, the more drawn in I...

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