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- 1927-01-28
- Died
- 1996-12-23
- Works
- 9
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- The Adversary
- Folio
- Melbourne On Film - Cinema That Defines Our City
- Exit Strategies
- The best of The Lifted Brow
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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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