Tickets: £20.00 Seat at a shared Table for 4 /£15.00 Seat - No Table

Doors: 7.30pm

Show: 8:00pm-9:30pm - Single Set 75 min

Please note you can book for dinner either before or after the show.

Since the UK legendary pianist Stan Tracey CBE passed in 2013, his drummer son, Clark Tracey, has led tributes to the great music of his father, from trio to big band. The Hampstead Jazz Club is proud to headline Clark and his revered tribute.

This group has been the nucleus of these tributes, Clark and bassist Andrew Cleyndert having been members of Stan’s last rhythm section of 20 years. Clark felt the pianistic skills of Bruce Boardman on piano closely resembled Stan’s approach, while avoiding mimicking the great man. Boardman is also known for his study of Thelonious Monk, whose music influenced Tracey and will feature in the performance.

CLARK TRACEY

Clark grew up in a jazz environment as the son of Stan Tracey CBE, the UK's leading jazz pianist. At 13 he started playing the drums, turning professional at 17 by joining his father's various ensembles, from trio to orchestra. Within that context, for the next 35 years he toured worldwide and recorded extensively. Following his father’s death in 2013, he wrote an award winning biography about Stan’s life entitled "The Godfather of British Jazz", released on Equinox Publishing. Clark runs two record labels, one devoted to his father’s music, Resteamed Records.

In 1981 Clark began the first of his many groups, employing the cream of the UK’s younger talent. He has been dubbed “the Art Blakey of British Jazz” for that reason. He has recorded over 100 albums (15 as a leader) and performed in over 50 countries. He runs his own record company, Stray Horn Records.

Clark has over 40 years' experience playing alongside some of the most important artists in jazz at home and abroad. He has been awarded "Best Drums" title six times in the British Jazz Awards (most recently in 2018) and Ronnie Scott's Award for "Best Drums" in 2007. He has endorsements with Bosphorus Cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Remo Drumheads and Cambridge Drums.

Clark teaches privately and has given masterclasses at British colleges, as well as numerous workshops around the UK and overseas for the British Council. In 2012 he was commissioned to write an instructional book for Schott Publishing, "Exploring Jazz Drums". From 2012 to 2024, Clark was a Visiting Tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2019 Clark contributed the jazz content for the current Trinity syllabus for drum kit and in 2020 he was commissioned by a Chinese percussion academy to collate and present a brand new grading system for drums. They have also invited him to become Artist in Residence at the academy.

From 2009 – 2021, Clark promoted weekly gigs for ‘Herts Jazz’, based in Hertfordshire, presenting leading British musicians and groups of all ages, and on a grander scale the Herts Jazz Festival with British and international artists, from 2010. In 2019 He received the British Empire Medal for services to music.

"I was knocked out by the prospect of hearing such a terrific ensemble of seasoned exponents of post-bop music. For me Tracey is a world-class musician whose mature and distinctive artistry – his own “ snap-crackle” – is right up there with the likes of Philly Joe Jones and Roy Haynes. Clark Tracey is also a great bandleader, able to engage both easily and warmly with audiences while offering them the most intelligently programmed music, selected from many a realm of jazz." - Jazz Journal, 2024

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Leader, Drums – Clark Tracey

Piano – Bruce Boardman

Bass – Andrew Cleyndert

Please note, The Club is not licensed to allow access to Children under the age of 16 after 9pm, so for evening performances, please do not book tickets for children under the age of 16. Children aged 16 and above are welcome at any time.

For £20.00 Tickets:

Seats are not numbered and you will be seated at available tables. Please note tables seat 4 people, so for bookings of less than 4 people, you will be seated and share a table for 4.

For £15.00 Tickets:

This is a fully seated event. Seats are not numbered and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Please NOTE, there is NO food served in the Jazz Club, there is a bar for drinks. We advise booking a table for dinner at the Duke of Hamilton upstairs at least 1hr before show-time - Book Here

Please note the Jazz Club is situated in the basement of the Duke of Hamilton Pub and access is via a number of stairs. The nearest toilets are situated on the 1^st floor of the Pub.