For more than six decades, jazz fans have flocked to London’s Soho District with one destination in mind: to glide through the small, nondescript door of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Since its opening in ...

Ronnie Scott's role as the owner of Britain's longest surviving jazz club has perhaps distracted attention from his work as a musician, and this situation was hardly helped by the fact that he wasn't ...

Charles Mingus was larger than life as a composer, performer and bandleader. A writer of frequently difficult music, Mingus was demanding of himself and his musicians, yet he never wanted his works to ...

The new documentary “Ronnie’s” tells the story of a venue that reshaped the city’s jazz scene, and the mysterious musician who lent it his name. By Marcus J. Moore Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club has been an ...

Ronnie's chronicles the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, a poor, Jewish kid growing up in 1940s East End, London who became owner of the eponymous night club. Musical greats spanning decades played ...

Influenced by the harmonic freedom pioneered by John Coltrane, he’s one of those post- hard bop instrumentalists who reached out towards various kinds of fusion, bringing jazz back to its more ...