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
William Chilton (printer) transmutation of species. His writings on transformism preceded Chambers's "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" by a few years. Chilton took interest in the book but criticized Chambers for mixing science with religious speculation. William Chilton (printer) William Chilton (1815 – 28 May 1855), was a printer, Owenite Socialist, evolutionist, and co-founder with Charles Southwell of "The Oracle of Reason", which claimed to be the world's first avowedly atheist journal. Born in Bristol, the son of William and Mary Ann Chilton, Chilton's first occupation was that of bricklayer, before becoming a compositor and reader for the local "Bristol Mercury".