The first law of jazz

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Pete King is the man who has been running Ronnie Scott's jazz club all these years. "He was without doubt the most unpleasant and disagreeable person who ever played at Ronnie Scott's. I have heard it said that Ronnie Scott himself used to arrange to be out of the country when Stan Getz came to play at the club, and I have managed to unearth this chunk of Ronnie Scott conversation from a nice old storehouse of anecdotes called "The Best of Jazz Score", edited by Roy Pellett and published by the BBC. And, just to square the circle, quite by accident I find this little reminiscence by Ronnie Scott about the equally self-absorbed Ruby Braff.