Clark Tracey

Clark Tracey ( born February 5, 1961 in London ) is a British drummer of modern jazz.

Life and work

Tracey Clark is the son of jazz pianist Stan Tracey and initially played piano and vibraphone, before switching to drums at age 13. He had lessons with Bryan Spring, first played in 1978 in various ensembles of his father to listen to his album as Genesis from 1989. They formed in the 1990s, a quartet called Fathers and Sons with John and Alec Dankworth. Clark Tracey played also with gas- animal border U.S. musicians such as Scott Hamilton, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Charlie Rouse. He also worked with Buddy DeFranco and 1984-1986 with guitarist Martin Taylor, then with Alan Skidmore and saxophonist Tommy Smith and 1992 with Guy Barker.

Since the late 1980s he also led his own formations, where musicians such as Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Guy Barker, Jamie Talbot, Mark Nightingale, Dave O'Higgins, Nigel Hitchcock, Gerard Presencer, Mornington Lockett, Jean Toussaint, Simon Allen, Zoe Rahman and Alan Barnes participated. Tracey was also involved in recordings by Guy Barker, Alan Barnes, Michael Hashim, Brian Lemon, Claire Martin, the Heinz Sauer Quartet with the NDR Big Band, Alan Skidmore, Colin Towns, Warren Vache, Bob Wellins and Bob Wilber.

Throughout his career, Tracey was three times named best drummer with the British Jazz Awards in 2007 he won the Ronnie Scott's Club Award.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Suddenly Last Tuesday (1986 )
• Stiperstones (1987 )
• We've Been Expecting You (1992 )
• Full Speed ​​Sideways ( 33Jazz, 1994)
• Stability ( Linn, 2001) with Andy Sheppard, Christine Tobin and the Locrian String Quartet
• British Standard Time ( 2005)
• The Calling (2005)
• Given Time ( 2008)