Stan Tracey-Louis Moholo-live in Novara Italy 2006

Here's another great Stan Tracey Broadcast , originally taped and shared by Dimer Survivor69 (many thanks to him), a duo with Louis Moholo , in beautiful crystal clear sound , again largely freely improvised,though i have a suspicion that the last piece is a blue notes tune, but i cant quite nail it !
A marvellous show which at times strongly evokes Moholo's Masterful FMP duo with Keith Tippett.
ENJOY!
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Novara Jazz : Stan Tracey & Louis Moholo duo 

Recorded at Auditorium Fratelli Oliveri del Conservatorio Guido Cantelli, Novara (Italy)
on sunday 30 April 2006, for Novara Jazz Festival 2006
Stan Tracey, pianoforte - Louis Moholo, drums

nine unannounced (and unknown to me) tracks, for a total of 58'56" see FFP for sequence

FM radio broadcast by "Il Cartellone - Radio 3 Suite Jazz", Radio 3 RAI [third channel of Italian national radio], on wednesday 9 August 2006, 22:00 hours.


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duo piano-batteria proveniente dalla storia del jazz britannico, comunque lontano dal soul aframericano (nonostante moholo sia sudafricano), solo verso la fine ci si interstardisce in fastidiosi fraseggi accademici-classici, quasi contemporanei, ma specie nei primi brani vi si trova anche adeguata cadenza. Tra Jarrett (con molte meno note) e Tippett, con un occhio ad Evans...
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Lineage (FM > MD > CDR > wav's > web):

notes by Survivor69

Stan Tracey-Mike Osborne Original 1972

Here's a further commemorative tribute to to the late great Stan Tracey, in a duo setting with equally legendary saxophonist Mike Osborne.. recorded in 1971 for Cadillac , Ogun also released a collaboration between the two, 'Tandem' in 1977.

This features Tracey in seldom heard completely free modality, something he returned to later in life in a  fabulous series of duets with Evan Parker , which are available(and whole heartedly recommended!) on Parker's Psi ,label .
This was transferred some years ago from a friends quite battered copy , the low res covers are from discogs.
no eq, compression or digi syrup employed, sweeten to taste!

Enjoy!

Stan Tracey at the BBC 1978 - 1982

To follow up our previous posting below, here is some truly vintage jazz to commemorate the passing away of Stan Tracey on 6 December at the age of 86. We have selected to hone in on recordings done for BBC radio in the late 70s and the early 80s. At this point he kept a regular quartet which sometimes was contracted into a trio and other times expanded into a sextet, octet and even a full orchestra. For this post, we have two quartets and a trio with a slight variation in line--up as his son Clark Tracey came to replace Bryan Spring on drums. And for a contrast, I've thrown in a batch of the full Orchestra doing a superb set of Ellington covers.

Stan Tracey Quartet
Jazz In Britain, BBc radio 3, 31st August 1978
Art Themen (ts,ss), Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b), Bryan Spring (d)

1. Waltzy Waltzy
2. Amoroso Only More So
3. Lovers Freeway

Stan Tracey Orchestra

BBC jazz Club, 27th January 1980

Tony Coe (ts, cnt), Bobby Wellins (ts), Don Weller (ts), Art Themen (ts, ss), Jeff Daly (as), Malcolm Griffits (tmb), Jeff Perkins (tmb), Colin Sheen (tmb), Chris Pyne (tmb), Dave Hawler(tmb), Mike Davis (tmp), Henry Lowther (tpt), George Chisholm (tpt), Alan Downy (tpt), Harry Beckett (tpt), Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b), Clark Tracey (d)

1. I'm Beginning To See The Light

2. radio announcer - Peter Clayton

3. Mood Indigo

4. radio announcer

5. prelude To A Kiss (piano solo)

6. radio announcer

7. Lay-by

8. radio outro

Stan Tracey Trio

Jazz In Britain, BBC Radio

Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b, b-gtr), Clark Tracey (d, perc, tablas)

1. Radio intro - Charles Fox

2. Ripped Off In Bogota

3. Doin' It For Art

4. OK J.K.

5. Radio outro

Stan Tracey Quartet

Sounds Of Jazz, BBC radio, 26th September 1982

Art Themen (ts, ss), Stan Tracey (p), Roy Babbington (b), Clark Tracey (d)

1. Undercover Lover

2. radio announcer - Peter Clayton

3. Amoroso Only More So

4. radio announcer

5. Fatima Di Milo

6. radio announcer

7. Everywhere Derriere

These were recorded off FM onto cassette, digitised and uploaded to the dime torrent site by aw4, if I remember correctly. Mucho credits for invaluable preservation services!

STAN TRACEY ORCHESTRA. GENESIS live at the Proms 2009

Stan Tracey (piano)
Guy Barker, Mark Armstrong, Henry Lowther & Nathan Bray (trumpets)
Mark Nightingale, Andy Wood & Alistair White (trombones)
Dave O’Higgins, Simon Allen, Mornington Lockett, Alan Barnes & Sammy Mayne (saxophones)
Clark Tracey (drums)
Andrew Cleyndert (double bass)


1. Intro
2 - 8. Genesis [The Beginning – The Light – The Firmament – The Gathering – The Sun, Moon and Stars – Feather, Fin and Limb – The Sixth Day]
9. Solo 'Little man you've had a busy day' and outro

Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Saturday, July 18, 2009

BBC Radio 3.

Review         Stan on Desert Island Discs

Obituary (Guardian)    

 The Stan Tracey Appreciation Society (Facebook)

Sonny Rollins-Live at Ronnie Scott's London 1968

This one's for Andy ... and anyone else who might enjoy it... musically if not quite sonically this is very fine... a nice if somewhat frustratingly flawed, but very listenable document of Rollins playing with British Legends Oxley and Tracey , whom i understand were virtually the house rhythm section at Ronnie Scott's in the Mid to late 60's, along with a variable array of Bassists including Rick Laird, Jeff Clyne, and Chris Lawrence.

Original Trader/Seeders notes
Sonny Rollins
Ronnie Scott's Club
London, England
1968

Sonny Rollins - Tenor Sax
Ronnie Scott - Tenor Sax*
Stan Tracey - Piano
Tony Oxley - Drums
Rick Laird???       - Bass

Disc 1
01. Bye Bye Blackbird* 18:03
02. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes* 26:38

Disc 2
03. Sonnymoon for Two* 20:36
04. Three Little Words(cut) 22:40
05. My Reverie (cut) 4:02

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