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We’re very proud to announce the release of the film The Real McGregor (2025 Restoration) in association with Paul Moody/International Media Productions Ltd. Featuring an extraordinary, incendiary performance by the Blue Notes at Ronnie Scott’s Old Place in 1967 the film is available free of charge on the Ogun You Tube Channel.

Ogun Records presents
An International Media Productions film

The Real McGregor (2025 Restoration)

Director:  Ian Hutchison (1967)
Director: Paul D.J. Moody (2025)
All rights reserved
2025 International Media Productions

Ronnie Scott’s Old Place was a jazz club in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown. It was the site of the original Ronnie Scott club, and when Ronnie opened the new venue in Frith Street still had time to run on the lease. Ronnie and Pete King kept the club going as an outlet for the younger generation of British jazz musicians. From 1966 the club was run by impresario John Jack, operating 6-7 nights a week and available 24 hours a day to musicians as a hang, a rehearsal space, a social and a central London venue for the adventurous and new music they created.

At the heart of this music were the Blue Notes – newly arrived from Apartheid South Africa – who were in the process of igniting the jazz music scene in London. This film represents the only visual record of the group playing in the 1960s, and is also incredibly rare footage of Ronnie’s legendary Old Place. This footage has been meticulously restored by film-maker and archivist Paul Moody, and the soundtrack restored at the RCA sound studio.

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