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Stan Tracey Trio: The 1959 Sessions
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As admired and as influential as Thelonious Monk's piano playing was, his fascinating, jagged style wasn't often imitated. Monk's original compositions, however, were quick to become jazz standards and were played and recorded nearly as often as songs by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. But unlike Bud Powell, whose piano style was incorporated by many artists, few dared to play like Monk. Sure, there might be a Monkian figure here or there as a tribute, but most pianists wouldn't dare ...
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Documentary: Stan Tracey
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Little-known in America but a jazz force in the U.K., Stan Tracey was a British pianist who was highly influenced by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tracey's keyboard attack was stormy, percussive and deeply felt, but he also could play straight-ahead jazz and worked and recorded with Ted Heath for years. He also was the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's behind touring artists. Perhaps his most important albums are Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's “Under Milk Wood" (1965) and ...
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Passings: Stan Tracey, George Buck
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Stan Tracey, the pianist sometimes called the godfather of British jazz, died on December 6. He was 86. Tracey helped to draw international attention to jazz in the United Kingdom and influenced the development of scores of younger players. Through most of the 1960s he was the house pianist at Ronnie Scott’s club in London and frequently accompanied visiting American musicians. Of that period, he told The Guardian’s John Fordam, ...with people like Rahsaan Roland Kirk or Sonny Rollins and ...
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Stan Tracey dies aged 86
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Michael Ricci
Stan Tracey, a prime mover in British jazz for more than half a century, has died at the age of 86. The jazz pianist and composer had a keen musical intelligence and was renowned for Under Milk Wood, his 1968 suite based around Dylan Thomas's radio play. Tracey was born on December 30, 1926, in Denmark Hill, South London, and made numerous albums, some of which deserve a place among the great post-war jazz recordings. His father was not musical ...
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Tracey Whitney's New Album - I Am Singing...Songs I Love
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Creativity in Music
I Am Singing...Songs I Love On her stunning sophomore album, Tracey Whitney pays joyful homage to a diverse mix of musicians who have inspired her own singing and songwriting. Rounded out by three original tracks, “I Am Singing…Songs I Love” (a nod at her cover of the Stevie Wonder classic, “Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am Singing”) features the Los Angeles/Albuquerque- based singer’s stirring renditions of classic yet lesser-covered songs by artists like Michael Franks, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. At ...
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Stan Tracey, Get the Blessing, Ronnie Scott's and Gwyneth Herbert for Made in the UK in NYC
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Michael Ricci
This week sees the Made in the UK concert series return to New York at venues throughout Manhattan. Legendary jazz pianist, Stan Tracey, kicks off proceedings with two shows at Dizzy's tonight in his first appearance in New York since touring with the Ted Heath Orchestra in 1959. Tracey's 1965 recording 'Under Milk Wood' is widely heralded as one of the greatest albums in European jazz. At 83, he is playing as well as ever with ...
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Tracey Whitney's CD - "Love...A Fable in 9 Acts"
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Creativity in Music
On her solo debut, Love A Fable in 9 Acts, Tracey Whitney’s rich, sultry voice seduces and soothes, revealing a lifelong vocal mastery while steering clear of self-indulgence.
The CD, which is a return to the soulful love songs of yesteryear, has garnered widespread radio airplay. And the release is critically-acclaimed with eight of the 10 songs called “potential standards" by Loggins Promotions (the Los Angeles record promoter of artists such as Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men and Kenny Loggins). ...
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Stan Tracey and Keith Tippett Reunited - 37 Years On
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All About Jazz
January 30th sees piano legend Stan Tracey play a major concert at the Barbican, London. The concert will range across Tracey's career, with the London premiere of a major big band piece, Genesis, a sequence of pieces for an Octet with a front line of fine soloists--Guy Barker, Alan Barnes, Mornington Lockett and Mark Nightingale--as well as solo and trio sets.
For many fans, the highlight of the evening will be a very rare performance of Tracey's spectacular piano duet ...
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Clare Teal presents the 40th Anniversary of Stan Tracey's "Under Milk Wood"
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All About Jazz
Last Friday, April 22nd, Clare Teal hosted a special 40th anniversary celebration of Stan Tracey's “Under Milk Wood" suite for BBC Radio 2. The show was recorded live at The Mermaid Theatre in London and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Monday 2nd May 2005 (8pm-9pm). The show features Stan Tracey on piano, Clark Tracey on drums, Andrew Cleyndert on bass and Bobby Wellins on saxophone who played with Stan on the original 1965 record as well as ...
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