CLARK TRACEY TRIO WITH MIKE GORMAN AND DON WELLER

Tickets £10, Doors 7pm, Performance 9pm

CLARK TRACEY TRIO with Mike Gorman and Don Weller

Clark is an excellent, highly experienced, award-winning drummer, bandleader, composer and arranger.

Originally featured with the band of his father, Stan, Clark has gone on to establish himself in his own right as one of the country’s leading modern jazz drummers. As a drummer he includes work with the likes of Johnny Griffin, Pharaoh Sanders, Scott Hamilton, Ronnie Scott and Kenny Wheeler. He has recorded over 90 albums (9 as a leader) and performed in around 50 countries. He has been awarded "Best Drums" title three times in the British Jazz Awards and Ronnie Scott's Award for “Best Drums” in 2007.

As a bandleader he can boast some of the finest musicians in the UK have passed through his ranks including the likes of Guy Barker, Nigel Hitchcock, Dave O'Higgins, Mark Nightingale, Mornington Lockett, Julian Arguelles, Gerard Presencer, Alec Dankworth and and Zoe Rahman. As well as composing and arranging for his own group he has composed for the Berkshire Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Appleby Festival big band and written string quartet arrangements for vocalists Claire Martin & Joan Viskant. The band Clark is leading tonight performs powerful, straight ahead, modern Jazz and features some of the brightest young stars on the scene.

“…..one of the most impressive jazz drummers in Britain today” The Times