Harold Pendleton obituary

Founder of the Marquee Club who revitalised jazz in Britain and hosted the first gigs of the Rolling Stones and the WhoThe punchline to the inquiry as to how you can make a million out of jazz – start with two million – reflects a long-cherished downbeat romance in jazz circles, that pursuing the music is inevitably a labour of love. But over the decades a few energetically practical enthusiasts emerged to show that there were ways of making non-mainstream music reach big audiences.