Johnny Scott is soothing my hangover – I ditched the Nurofen in favour of an old Jazzer. 

Anyone with a healthy interest in vintage British horror and documentary films will know this guy. He scored a load of Norman J Warren flicks throughout the Sixties and Seventies and collaborated with Jacques Cousteau. He now lives in the States where he spends his time conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra and writing cues for Van Damme films amongst others.

Here The Johnny Scott Quintet perform a track from the 1961 movie All Night Long which is based on the Shakespeare play Othello and stars some other greats including Charlie Mingus and Dave Brubeck. For anyone else with a sore head this morning, here you go: