Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

REVEALED: Ronnie scott | Rare Historical Photos

The best London gigs this week, from Hannah Bahng to the Pet Shop Boys

Maddy Mussen on this weekend’s must-see shows

Evening Standard

The biggest food and drink stories of 2025, from Pizza Express to M&S' strawberry sandwich

Did you manage to get your hands on a 33p margherita at Pizza Express?

Evening Standard

“I would like people to know that I was the true inventor of ska and reggae”: Ernest Ranglin on working with Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, James Bond – and how he influenced “almost every aspect of Jamaican music”

Bob Marley asked him to teach him how to play and how to write. He wrote music for Dr. No. He worked with Jimmy Cliff, Millie Small, and more. Ernest Ranglin reflects on his peerless legacy

Guitar World

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Wally Houser obituary

Other lives: Pro bono legal representative of Ronnie Scott’s jazz club whose loyalty to its founder never wavered

The Guardian - UK

Casa-Soho: free music festival comes to the Blue Posts thanks to Casamigos tequila

The event will follow another free street party held by Ronnie Scott’s

Evening Standard

Ronnie Scott's announces free street party this August

The world-famous jazz bar is hoping to draw thousands to Frith Street

Evening Standard

One to Watch: the rising jazz sensation Georgia Cécile

Ultra-chic jazz with plenty of old-school soul — welcome to the universe of Georgia Cécile

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Jazz isn’t about perfection’: drummer Billy Cobham on Miles Davis, Massive Attack and still learning at 80

After a grounding with genre greats, he fused jazz with rock to outrageously funky effect. Ahead of UK dates, he explains why two prosthetic hips aren’t slowing him down

The Guardian - UK

This is why London pubs and clubs could be staying open later this weekend

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been given new powers to keep bars open later

The Independent UK

London pubs and clubs set to stay open longer this summer following Sadiq Khan reforms

Sadiq Khan has been given new powers which could lead to pubs and clubs in central London being open for longer this summer

Evening Standard

Ronnie Scott’s boss warns ‘quiet nights’ plan could kill London’s nightlife

It comes after a ‘vocal minority’ of Soho residents lodged noise complaints

Evening Standard

Tony Kinsey obituary

Drummer, bandleader and composer who was a leading figure in the world of postwar British jazz

The Guardian - UK

"When I met him he was this hippie dude, living up in the hills taking magic mushrooms." The making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler

45 years on from the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott, we look back at the greatest rock’n’roll frontman of them all

Metal Hammer

Singer-songwriter James Bay's Favourite Things

We spoke to the soulful songbird about his signature look, style evolution and his new album

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Ezra Collective interview: ‘Politicians aren't gonna be the saviour of our communities’

They’re making history as the first jazz act to headline Wembley Arena, and Ezra Collective couldn’t be more thrilled. The London quintet tells Isobel Van Dyke why music is the soul of community

Evening Standard

Amy Winehouse's London: Where the Rehab star ate, drank and sang

From Camden boozers to Soho clubs, David Ellis traces the late singer’s favourite haunts

Evening Standard

Ronnie Scott's owners pay themselves £3 million dividend

The owners of London’s most iconic jazz club have paid themselves a £3 million dividend, its latest accounts show, after the venue’s largest shareholders tightened their grip over the ownership of the company.

Guitar World

“If I had tried to be another Ron Carter I would have failed. I don’t think that’s what Miles was looking for”: Dave Holland on the making of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew

Few jazz bassists can match the pedigree of Dave Holland, thanks to his work with Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Chick Corea and just about everyone else

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Tony Oxley obituary

Drummer and percussionist who developed his own musical language as a composer

The Guardian - AU

The 25 best Australian books of 2023: Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Robyn Davidson and others

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

Evening Standard

Live by Robert Elms review: Good books about live music are rare — this one’s a gem

There are far too many books about music, even though I’ve written a fair few myself. The market is starting to feel saturated; graze the music section on your local Waterstones and you’ll find endless biographies of bass players in long-forgotten prog rock groups, a multitude of cut-and-paste hagiographies and…

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Kennedy review – banter, birdsong and violin heroics

Shifting gears between Bach, Hendrix and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kennedy and his quartet perform a characteristically wide-ranging and virtuosic set

Evening Standard

My London: Ian Rankin

Crime writer Ian Rankin searches out comics at Forbidden Planet, likes to catch a Spurs game when he’s in town and fancies being a live-in resident at Ronnie Scott’s

The Guardian - UK

Mo Foster obituary

Other Lives: Session bass guitarist who played on many hit singles and albums

Evening Standard

My London: Kool & the Gang’s Robert ‘Kool’ Bell

Kool & the Gang legend Robert ‘Kool’ Bell likes a classic night at Ronnie Scott’s, enjoys the InterContinental at the O2 and would take a boat down the Thames... and beyond

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Westminster City Council

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.