Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood and the rise in British jazz

By the 60s, British jazz no longer sounded like an American clone. Among the works that took the genre to new heights, Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood still reigns supremeWhen Wynton Marsalis appeared at a Barbican tribute concert to the late Sir John Dankworth in June, it felt like a symbolic convergence of creative forces – those of jazz's American homeland, and of its many and varied descendants in Europe. Jazz arrived early in Britain, when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band – the white New ...

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