Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 1962, and was succeeded by many others (often saxophonists whom Scott and King, tenor saxophonists themselves, admired, such as Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt) in the years that followed. Many UK jazz musicians were also regularly featured, including Tubby Hayes and Dick Morrissey who would both drop in for jam sessions with the visiting stars. In the mid-1960s, Ernest Ranglin was the house guitarist. The club's house pianist until 1967 was Stan Tracey. For nearly 30 years it was home of a Christmas residency to George Melly and John Chilton's Feetwarmers. In 1978, the club
Irma Chilton English and Welsh and won eisteddfod prizes for them. They included the novels "String of Time" (1968, which later appeared as "Nightmare", 1972), "Goldie" (1969), "The Time Button" (1970) and "Rhwng cwsg ac effro" (1975). She took the Crown for prose at the National Eisteddfod in Powys. There is an annual memorial prize, given each year to aspiring children's novelists by the Welsh Arts Council, called the Irma Chilton Bursary. Previous winners have included Jennifer Sullivan Irma Chilton Irma Chilton (born Mair Elizabeth Irma Evans, 12 November 1930 – 1990) was a Welsh children's writer in the English and Welsh