Stan Tracey: Under Milk Wood (Columbia 1965)
Comped by Peterson, known by many, inspired by Dylan Thomas – I need to include the track Starless and Bible Black in this chart for the simple reason it is one of the most emotive, and tragically deep British Jazz cuts I’m aware of. Bobby Wellins whispering treatment on tenor sax is simply spellbinding, Tracey’s sparse and somber keys frame the cut and qualify it IMHO as a truly great recording. Seeing this cut performed live at the Jazz Britannia gig was an incredible experience and one I am unlikely to forget.
“Starless and Bible Black”
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Wow. Dazzling.
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Beautiful!
great track.
Hi, a bit of a late posting on this thread perhaps… but nevertheless… If you like this album, buy Drummer mag’s next issue (I’m writing this march 2010, and I’m not sure which number issue the article will appear in), in which I write up a review of the album, from a drummer’s perspetive, naturally.
A great bit of British jazz indeed, and yes, Starless is the best track, but there’s some other good stuff too, and it’s very impressive that musicians here in the UK could take a sound that was only really still just emerging Stateside (some of the albums other tracks show a distinct hard bop/soul jazz/Art Blakey/Horace Silver influence), and make it their own.
Also visit my blog ‘soundsfromthefunkygoat’ for some interview snippets from chats I had with Stan Tracey and Bobby Wellins whilst preparing my article.
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