When Nina went Awol and all that jazz

Dave Gelly has had some entertaining nights at Ronnie Scott's, but here he recalls two of the worst… and the most memorableI have known Ronnie Scott's club for most of my adult life. Some of my most enjoyable musical moments have happened there, but the two which remain most vivid were more alarming than fun.The first was in about 1969, when I was recruited into a band specially assembled to accompany the South African emigre saxophonist Dudu Pukwana. Around a dozen of us spent a day in th...

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