We pointed you in the direction of the Ronnie Scott’s club streamed performances a couple of months ago but this one has to be particularly close to their heart – A Celebration of The Jazz Couriers – the band that was famously co-led by the club’s founder alongside fellow saxophonist Tubby Hayes.
Ronnie started his club a year after the Couriers split, it went on to become a jazz institution brining the finest musicians in the world to play in the UK. Tubby went on to be acknowledged as probably the finest British jazz musician of his generation and received acclaim overseas. Perhaps slightly less celebrated is the impact that their hard-driving band had on the development of jazz in the UK, but that is plain to see in this concert…
