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- 1993-1996 (Creation)
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1 folder
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Material relating to A Suite for Swansea, a piece commissioned by University College Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education and composed by pianist Stan Tracey to mark the 1995 Year of Literature; together with general material relating to Stan Tracey and his work.
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Dated correspondence arranged chronologically.
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- English
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Some Welsh.
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Stanley William (Stan) Tracey, jazz pianist and composer, was born in London in 1926. He started his professional musical career aged sixteen playing accordion as a member of the Entertainments National Service Organisation (ENSA) during the Second World War. He led his own octet from 1976 to 1985, formed a sextet in 1979 and a quartet in 1995. In 2003 he was the subject of a BBC documentary entitled The Godfather of British Jazz. He died in 2013. Tracey considered his major influences to be Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. His best-known recording was probably the 1965 album Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas' 'Under Milk Wood'. His son is the jazz drummer, band leader and composer Clark Tracey.
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- Tracey, Stan, 1926-2013 (Subject)