‘UNDER MILK WOOD’ (Homage to Stan Tracey’s Jazz Suite)

Submitted by dac3uk on February 22, 2023 - 11:36

Venue, Timing and Cost

Venue: 
St Giles Church, Oxford
Date(s): 
Saturday, 29 April 2023
Timing: 
7:30pm
Cost: 
£15/£10
Poster

Stan Tracey was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. He sadly died in 2013.

Tracey's best known recording is the 1965 album Jazz Suite, inspired by "Under Milk Wood", the famous BBC radio drama written by Dylan Thomas first heard in 1954. It features the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub.

Using scores produced and transcribed by Clark Tracey, a quartet consisting of Steve Kershaw (bass), Martin Pickett (piano), Ewen Baird (saxophone) and Mike Goff (drums) will be performing Stan Tracey’s musical interpretation of Dylan Thomas’ famous work Under Milk Wood. In addition to the Jazz Quartet the narrative passages will be performed by Tom Neil and Sian Goff.

'Under Milk Wood' promises to be a fascinating evening, something new to discover at JASG, mixing voices and sounds in an evening that you will look back on fondly.

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