Some of My Best Friends Are Blues - Softcover

Ronnie Scott was well-known as a musician, jazz club founder, and acted as compere in his London jazz club, Ronnie Scott's. Mike Hennessey is one of Europe's leading jazz writers. He is also a record producer, broadcaster and pianist. He covered the international music scene for Billboard magazine for 27 years and has written more than 500 album notes and hundreds of articles, reviews and biographical features for a wide range of jazz magazines, including Jazz Magazine and Jazz Hot in France, Coda in Canada, Jazz Times and Down Beat in the United States, Jazz Journal International, Jazzwise and Crescendo in the UK, Jazz Forum in Poland, Musica Jazz in Italy, Cuadernos De Jazz in Spain and Jazz Thing and Jazz Podium in Germany. He is also the author of a well-received biography of the late drummer, Kenny Clarke - Klook - published by Quartet Books, London and by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the USA - and of Tin Pan Alley, a book about the British music business.

Reviews of first edition: 'One of the best books about jazz, and its characters, ever written.' Music Week. 'A must for jazz enthusiasts or fans of the Ronnie Scott blend of humour.' Music Week. 'I laughed a lot.' Brian Case, Melody Maker. 'In the train journey sense, it's a Good Read. However, beyond all the anecdote and the wonderful lines... and the hints of Ronnie's East End childhood, there's something deeper. It took Ronnie Scott's account of his early struggles to make me see one of the fundamental differences between jazz musicians and the rest. ' Peter Clayton, Sunday Telegraph. 'With its array of outsize characters and crisp anecdotes the book is genuinely entertaining, even for non-jazz buffs.' Kevin Henriques, FT. 'An enthralling book about a memorable character.' Jim Godbolt, Jazz at Ronnie Scott's.