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Stan Tracey Big Band – Stan Tracey and Keith Tippett
30 January 2008 / 19:30 – Barbican Hall (Part of Barbican Jazz)
Tickets: £15 / 20 / 25 (subject to availability)

Stan Tracey has occupied a very special place at the heart of jazz in this country since the early 60s, when his landmark Under Milk Wood suite marked the emergence of a uniquely British response to the African-American traditions of the music. Now in his 81st. year, he remains complete original. His piano style, with its echoes of Ellington and Monk is essential Tracey in its witty and absorbing twists and turns – and he is a composer of real substance, the creator of a series of extended suites that combine a rare command of melody and groove, laced with sumptous brass and reed textures.

Tonight’s concert time-travels through Tracey’s music, with the London premiere of a major big band piece, Genesis; a sequence of pieces for a supercharged Octet that features a cracking front line of soloists from successive younger generations; plus solo and trio sets. The icing on the cake – a very rare performance of Tracey’s spectacular piano duet with Keith Tippett, whose intensely creative spirit fires an approach to improvisation that is postively breathtaking in its sonic sweep.
Guy Barker, Alan Barnes, Mornington Lockett and Mark Nightingale are amongst a team of stellar soloists also featured.

Produced by the Barbican in association with Serious.

OCTOBER
12 Maidenhead – Stan Tracey Trio
13 St Albans – Stan Tracey Quintet
17-20 Pizza Express, London – Stan Tracey Trio + Guy Barker & Benjamin Herman
26 Carswell – Stan Tracey Quartet
27 Bulls Head, London – Stan Tracey Quintet

NOVEMBER
3 RAC Club, London – Stan Tracey Trio
16 Garden Museum, London – Stan Tracey Quartet
24 Bulls Head, London – Stan Tracey Group

DECEMBER
13 Liverpool – Stan Tracey Quartet
29 Bulls Head – Stan Tracey Group

JULY
14TH Amsterdam Bim House Stan Tracey Trio + Guy Barker + Benjamin Herman
15th North Sea Festival Stan Tracey Trio + Guy Barker + Benjamin Herman
26/27/28/29 Appleby Festival
30th Hull Spring St. Arts Centre Stan Tracey Octet

AUGUST
3 Boxford – Stan Tracey Quartet w/ Bobby Wellins
17 Gainsborough – Stan Tracey Quartet
22 Yoxford – Stan Tracey Quartet
25 Bulls Head, London – Stan Tracey Quintet

SEPTEMBER
13 Nottingham – Stan Tracey Octet
28 Scarborough – Stan Tracey Octet
29 Bulls Head, London – Stan Tracey Group