In praise of… Ronnie Scott's at 50

The self-deprecating one-liners about the size of the audience or the quality of the food have gone (its eponymous co-founder once said that 3,000 flies can't be wrong); it is also more commercially managed these days, but Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club at 50 is still a venue that Scott, had he been alive today, would embrace. It is still the spiritual home of British jazz. It is not for us to say whether Ronnie's is better than other great venues such as Birdland, the Village Vanguard or the Blue Not...

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