A Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" is an album by the English pianist Stan Tracey and his quartet, that was released by the Columbia subsidiary of EMI in 1965. The music was written in response to the 1953 BBC radio play Under Milk Wood, by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It has often been cited as one of the best jazz recordings made in the United Kingdom.

In a series of articles for The Guardian newspaper titled "50 great moments in jazz", John Fordham wrote of the album: "Under Milk Wood was an evocative collection of sparky themes inspired by the Dylan Thomas radio play (it's sometimes performed with a narrator reading the parts). And thanks to Tracey's sparing piano and Wellins's softly hooting sax, the rippling tone-poem 'Starless and Bible Black' is widely acclaimed as one of the great jazz performances". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-aDGOSC3o&list=RDFd-aDGOSC3o&start_radio=1

#StanTracey #BobbyWellins #JeffClyne #DylanThomas #UnderMilkWood #BritJazz #Jazz #Music

Insight is an album by saxophonist/flautist Prince Lasha that was recorded in England in 1966 and originally released on the CBS label.

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, with its review by Thom Jurek stating: "this is not an exploratory outside date, but a straight-ahead session of originals and standards, divided between uptempo numbers and ballads. ...For all its traditionalism, this is indeed a major date for Lasha and reveals how deeply ensconced he was in the bop and swing lineages."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAGF6Cxnhjw&list=RDPAGF6Cxnhjw&start_radio=1

#PrinceLasha #DavidSnell #Harp #Jazz #Music #StanTracey

Personal Portrait by Joe Harriott released by Columbia in 1968 as part of their Landsdowne Series.

"...1968's Personal Portrait (Columbia) was a mixed bag of jazz with strings and some affecting work with old bandmate Smythe and Stan Tracey.." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDOWiS60PcE&list=RDjDOWiS60PcE&start_radio=1

#JoeHarriott #StanTracey #DavidMack #Landsdowne #BritJazz #Jazz #Music #PatSymthe

Following on from yesterday's earworm - Ellington's La Plus Belle Africaine - is today's: Stan Tracey's tribute to Ellington and the Scared Concerts - The Beginning, from Tracey's Genesis Suite.

It was listening to Stan Tracey that helped me understand the avant garde: he sounded like Ellington AND he sound like Monk, at the same time! (I later learned that when Ellinton first heard Monk, he said something like "he's stealling my tricks"...)

#StanTracey #TheBeginning

https://clarktracey.bandcamp.com/track/the-beginning

Sonatinas by John Surman / Stan Tracey, released on Steam in 1978.

John Surman
baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, tenor recorder, synthesizer
Stan Tracey
piano, synthesizer, producer

Two giants of Brit jazz meet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bq7pCot9gk&list=RD4Bq7pCot9gk&start_radio=1

#JohnSurman #StanTracey #Jazz #BritJazz #Duo #Music

The New Departures Quartet by The New Departures Quartet, released on Transatlantic in 1965.

[Stan Tracey] became active too in Michael Horovitz's New Departures project, mixing poetry performances with jazz, where the musicians interacted spontaneously with the words.[5] The New Departures group recorded an album in 1964 with saxophonist Bobby Wellins, a partnership that continued for several decades. Both men contributed original compositions to the album - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoHeZEJbqHE&list=RDFoHeZEJbqHE&start_radio=1

#JeffClyne #LaurieMorgan
#StanTracey #BobbyWellins #jazz #BritJazz

Presenting Kenny Graham 1957

Kenny Graham (born Kenneth Thomas Skingle; 19 July 1924 – 17 February 1997) was a British jazz saxophonist, arranger, composer and essayist, described as "one of Britain's foremost jazz composers and arrangers",[1] and as "a genuine, often overlooked pioneer of the modern jazz movement in Britain"...

...In 1956, inspired by the work of American musician Moondog, he recorded an album, Moondog And Suncat Suites, credited to Kenny Graham And His Satellites, which included treatments of some of Moondog's compositions as well as Graham's own. The following year he recorded an album, Presenting Kenny Graham, for the Pye Nixa label, featuring Seamen and pianist Stan Tracey, and engineered by Joe Meek." Wikipedia

#kennygraham #stantracey #jazz #britjazz #joemeek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKyNQkNgbJY&list=PLSfOBoXhqHVRQkEeF_q6bZYo5iaeP3A1t&index=1