First broadcast on BBC4 TV last night Oliver Murray’s documentary Ronnie's: the Life of Ronnie Scott and His World-Famous Club is an often dark story about a club built on the love of jazz and on friendship that has become synonymous with the music itself. With strong motifs of London as part of Murray's visual story telling approach, particularly poetic images of St Paul's, Tower Bridge and above all the streets and people of Soho, the documentary is full of stirring performance archive footage, especially the Nina Simone, Van Morrison and Chet Baker moments. The image of the punk girl in the audience for instance clearly moved by 'Send in the Clowns' has got to be seen. Ronnie's deepens into a discussion of Ronnie's private battle with depression and the fraternity of his long time friendship with Pete King when the film becomes a truly essential and inspiring piece of work that resets the imagination. At a time when clubs are shut it underlines once again how crucial they continue to be in the collective imagination of jazz lovers everywhere. Watch