Ronnie Scott was perhaps the most well known English jazz artist of all time. Not only an extraordinarily gifted musician, he was also the first to realise the promise of the exciting post-war American jazz scene, and the world-famous club he set up has remained at the forefront of the jazz community for over 40 years. Yet the man behind the club was just a colourful and complex as the music played there.

A Fine Kind of Madness is the first book to reveal the real Ronnie Scott, by of the people closest to his heart - his daughter, Rebecca. It portrays a talented and troubled man, often difficult and depressive, yet capable of exhibiting a tremendous energy and sense of fun.

A Fine Kind of Madness was Ronnie's own phrase for the quirks and idiosyncracies of life. This book is a tribute to an extraordinary life lived to the full.

REBECCA SCOTT was born in 1972 in London. In 1974 she moved, along with her mother, to Manhattan, New York. She was educated at the New York Military Academy and Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is pursuing her career in the music business at Sony Music Studios in Manhattan.

With a foreword by SPIKE MILLIGAN.

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