Pete King obituary

Jazz saxophonist and co-founder of Ronnie Scott's who strove to keep the club afloatThe instinct of most jazz musicians to chase down the unexpected improvisational twist and avoid the formulaic has been good for the art, but often bad for business. The music stopped having a broad, pop-music appeal more than half a century ago, and since then its survival has depended crucially on the players and their audiences being brought together by a dedicated infantry of promoters, proselytisers and vol...

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