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Jazz drummer CLARK TRACEY talks to Chris Searle about his musical development and the dynamic young lineup on his latest record, No Doubt
INFLUENCER: Clark Tracey
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAZZ pulsates in drummer Clark Tracey’s bloodstream. He’s the son of epochal pianist Stan, born in 1961 in Middlesex Hospital, a few streets away from Ronnie Scott’s Soho club, where Stan was house pianist.
“My parents were playing jazz from my first day at home, which always appealed!” he says Stan also played classical music and African tribal recordings.”
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