Ronnie Scott

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(born Ronald Schatt; 28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was a British

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and

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owner. He co-founded

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in London's

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district, in 1959.

Life and career

Ronnie Scott was born in

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, into a Jewish family. His father, Joseph Schatt, was of Russian ancestry, and his mother Sylvia's family attended the Portuguese synagogue in Alie Street. Scott attended the

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. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of 16. He toured with trumpeter

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from 1944 to 1945 and with

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in 1946. That same year, he appeared as one of the band members in ''

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''. He worked with

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, and Tito Burns. He was involved in the short-lived musicians' co-operative Club Eleven band and club (1948–50) with

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. Scott became an acquaintance of the arranger/composer

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, when the American was working in the UK for Heath, and is reported to have performed with Dameron as the pianist, at one Club Eleven gig. Scott was a member of the generation of British musicians who worked on the Cunard liner '' Queen Mary'' intermittently from 1946 to around 1950. The ship would sail to New York City where they were exposed to

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, the new form of jazz being played in the clubs there. Scott was among the earliest British musicians to have been influenced by

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and other players of modern jazz. In 1952, Scott joined

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's orchestra and from 1953 to 1956 led a nine-piece band and quintet which included Pete King, with whom he later opened his jazz club,

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, and

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. He co-led The Jazz Couriers with

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from 1957 to 1959 and was leader of a quartet that included

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(1960–67). From 1967 to 1969, Scott was a member of the

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, which toured Europe and included

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and

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. Simultaneously he ran his octet, which included

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and

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, and a trio with Mike Carr on keyboards and Bobby Gien on drums (1971–1975). Scott's other bands often included

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on keyboards and

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on drums. He did occasional session work, which included performing the solo on "

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", the 1968 single by

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, playing on

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's score for the film ''

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'' (1972), and performing the tenor sax solo on " I Missed Again", the 1981 single by

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. In the

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, Scott was appointed an

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(OBE) for services to jazz music.

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said of him in 1961, "Of the white boys, Ronnie Scott gets closer to the negro blues feeling, the way

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does." Scott recorded infrequently during the last few decades of his career. He suffered from depression. While recovering from surgery for tooth implants, he died at the age of 69 from an accidental overdose of

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prescribed by his dentist. The Westminster coroner's inquest in February 1997 recorded a verdict of 'death by misadventure'. Ronnie Scott's widow, Mary Scott, and her daughter, Rebecca Scott, wrote the memoir ''A Fine Kind of Madness: Ronnie Scott Remembered'', with a foreword by

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. The book was published in 1999 in London by

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Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Scott is perhaps best remembered for co-founding, with former tenor sax player Pete King,

, which opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in

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district, with the debut of a young alto sax player named Peter King (no relation), before later moving to a larger venue nearby at 47

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in 1965. The original venue continued in operation as the "Old Place" until the lease ran out in 1967, and was used for performances by the up-and-coming generation of domestic musicians. Scott regularly acted as the club's genial master of ceremonies, and was noted for his repertoire of jokes, asides and one-liners. A typical introduction might go: "Our next guest is one of the finest musicians in the country. In the city, he's crap". Another memorable announcement was: "Next week we're proud to have a quartet featuring

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and violinist

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. It's called the 'Getz-Stuffed quartet'." Ronnie often used in later days the services of John Schatt to book rock bands for Ronnie Scott's upstairs. Ronnie Scott told Showbusiness journalist Don Short in 1970:

Pop has poached on jazz without apology. That may irritate many jazzmen, but not me. I would never lose any sleep over it. It’s for the fans to choose the music they want to hear. I play. I don’t attempt to convert. But many young people are discovering just how hip jazz is.

After Scott's death, King continued to run the club for a further nine years, before selling the club to theatre impresario

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in June 2005. In September 2013, while the club was being redecorated, a 12-metre-square (39 ft²) hoarding was placed on the Frith Street façade as a tribute to its eponymous founder, bearing a giant photograph of Ronnie Scott by

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, alongside one of his one-liners: "I love this place, it's just like home, filthy and full of strangers.""Ronnie Scott's tribute to founder"
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'', 28 August 2013.

Selected band line-ups

As well as participating in name orchestras, Scott led or co-led numerous bands featuring some of Britain's most prominent jazz musicians of the day. ;Alan Dean's Beboppers: 1949 :Ronnie Scott (tenor sax),

(alto sax),

(trumpet), Tommy Pollard (piano), Pete Chilver (guitar),

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(double bass), Laurie Morgan (drums), Alan Dean (vocal) ;Ronnie Scott Orchestra: – 1954, 1955 :Ronnie Scott (tenor sax),

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(alto sax), Pete King (tenor sax),

(trumpet), Ken Wray (trombone), Benny Green (baritone sax),

(piano), Lennie Bush (double bass),

(drums) ;Ronnie Scott Quintet: – 1955 :Ronnie Scott (tenor sax), Hank Shaw (trumpet), Victor Feldman (piano), Sammy Stokes (double bass), Lennie Bush (double bass), Phil Seamen (drums) ;Ronnie Scott Big Band: – 1955 :Ronnie Scott, Pete King (tenor sax);

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, Doug Robinson (alto sax); Benny Green (baritone sax); Stan Palmer, Hank Shaw, Dave Usden, Jimmy Watson (trumpet); Jack Botterill, Robin Kaye, Mac Minshull, Ken Wray (trombone); Norman Stenfalt (piano); Eric Peter (double bass); Phil Seamen (drums) ;

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and Ronnie Scott, debuted at the new Flamingo Club in

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, Soho. The group lasted until 30 August 1959. :Ronnie Scott (tenor sax), Tubby Hayes (tenor sax, vibraphone), Terry Shannon (piano),

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(double bass),

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(drums) ;Ronnie Scott Quartet: 1964 :Ronnie Scott (tenor sax),

(piano),

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(drums, piano) ;Ronnie Scott Quintet: 1990 :Ronnie Scott (tenor sax), Dick Pearce (trumpet),

(piano),

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(double bass),

(drums)

Discography

As leader

* ''Boppin' at Esquire'' (Esquire, 1948) 0"* ''The Couriers of Jazz!'' (Carlton, 1958) * ''The Night Is Scott and You're So Swingable'' (1965, Redial) * ''When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give it to You'' (Jazz House, 1965) * ''Live at Ronnie Scott's'' (Columbia, 1969) *‘’The Pablo All-Stars Jam’’ (Pablo, 1977) * ''Serious Gold'' (Pye, 1977) * ''Never Pat a Burning Dog'' (Jazz House, 1990) * ''If I Want Your Opinion'' (Jazz House, 1997) * ''The Night Has a Thousand Eyes'' (Jazz House, 1997) * ''Boppin' at Esquire'' (Indigo, 2000) * ''Ronnie Scott Live at the Jazz Club'' (Time Music, 2002)

As sideman

With the

* '' Handle with Care'' (Atlantic, 1963) * ''

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'' (SABA, 1967) * ''

Out of the Folk Bag ''Out of the Folk Bag'' is an album by the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band featuring performances recorded in Cologne in 1967 for the German Columbia label.

'' (Columbia, 1967) * ''

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'' ( MPS, 1968) * ''

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'' (MPS, 1969) * ''

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'' (MPS, 1968) * '' Fellini 712'' (MPS, 1969) * ''

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'' (MPS, 1969) * ''

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'' (MPS, 1969) * '' Clarke Boland Big Band en Concert avec Europe 1'' (Tréma, 1992) – rec. 1969 * '' Off Limits'' (Polydor, 1970) * '' November Girl'' (Black Lion, 1975) – rec. 1970. also with

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. * '' Change of Scenes'' (Verve, 1971) – also with

With others *

, ''

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, 1958) – rec. 1955 *

, ''

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, 1981) Tenor saxophone solo on " I Missed Again" *

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, ''

'' (1968) tenor saxophone solo * Mark Murphy, ''

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'' (MPS, 1968)

References

Bibliography

* Clarke, Donald (ed.), ''The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', Viking, 1989. * Kernfeld, Barry Dean (ed.), ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'', Macmillan Press, 1988. * Kington, Miles; Gelly, Dave, ''The Giants of Jazz'', Schirmer Books, 1986. * Larkin, Colin, ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', 3rd edition, Macmillan, 1998. * Ruppli, Michel; Novitsky, Ed, ''The Mercury Labels. A discography'', Vol. V., Record and Artist Indexes, Greenwood Press, 1993. * Ronnie Scott with Mike Hennessey, ''Some of My Best Friends are Blues'' (autobiography). London:

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, 2002. * Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago compilation of best features from ''Jazz at Ronnie Scott''′s magazine, Hampstead Press, 2008, * Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley, ''Jazz: The Rough Guide''. * Richard Cook & Brian Morton, ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD'' 6th edition.

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Ronnie Scott Ronnie Scott Order of the British Empire, OBE (born Ronald Schatt; 28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was a British jazz Tenor saxophone, tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner. He co-founded Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London's Soho district ...

– biography by Jason Ankeny for Allmusic
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Life and career

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

Selected band line-ups

Discography

As leader

As sideman

See also

References

Bibliography

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