#stantracey — Public Fediverse posts

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

Opening my day with glorious sounds. I count myself incredibly lucky to have seen Stan and the gang many times in the 70s & 80s. Always brilliant, always so life-affirming, playing music filled with boundless joy...
#StanTracey #jazz #BritishJazz #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords