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Ronnie Scott
Sign in to saveBritish jazz saxophonist (1927–1996)
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- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927
- Active to
- 1996
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Ronnie Scott (28 January 1927 – 23 December 1996) was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner. Ronnie Scott (originally Ronald Schatt) was born in Aldgate, east London, into a family of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and Portuguese antecedents on his mother's. Scott began playing in small jazz clubs at the age of sixteen. he toured with Johnny Claes, the trumpeter, from 1944 to 1945, and with Ted Heath in 1946, as well as working with Ambrose, Cab Kaye, and Tito Burn
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- human
- Family name
- Scott
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
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- Ronnie Scott
- date of death
- 1996-12-23
- date of birth
- 1927-01-28
- cause of death
- drug overdose
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
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