For All We Know
The Stan Tracey Trio
Trio Records [CD] TR574

• Perdido [6.13] Juan Tizol
• Pannonica [5.47] Theloniou Monk
• For All We Know [7.56] Sam M Lewis / J. Fred Coots
• Little Rootie Tootie [9.45] Thelonious Monk
• My Old Flame [9.19] Sam Coslow
• See Meenah Latino [6.25] Stan Tracey
• Willow Weep For Me [8.11] Ann Ronell
• Great Times [4.54] Duke Ellington
• I Can't Get Started [5.13] Vernon Duke
  
  
• Total Time [64.00]

• Stan Tracey - piano
• Andrew Cleyndert - double bass
• Clark Tracey - drums

Recorded Live at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Leighton Buzzard, UK 26th November 2005

Sound, Sleeve design and Photography: Andrew Cleyndert

Produced by: Andrew Cleyndert Album Review:
John Fordham Friday April 14, 2006 The Guardian
- Stan Tracey, For All We Know (Trio) 4 stars

There are two Thelonious Monk tunes (Pannonica and Little Rootie Tootie) on this cracking live trio set recorded in the UK last November, with the 79-year-old Tracey showing his appreciation of Monk's harmonic innovations and rhythmic double-takes, while displaying a lugubrious playfulness and lyrical tenderness of his own. Tracey's jangly unaccompanied intro to Perdido, his off-handedly compassionate delivery of For All We Know (with Andy Cleyndert's warm bass sound enfolding him), and the peremptory firebell sound of Little Rootie Tootie's chords against Clark Tracey's close-marking cymbals drive home the case for the pianist's late-period work representing some of his most freewheeling playing. Tracey plays a tom-tom intro initially reminiscent of Max Roach's for Sonny Rollins's St Thomas before arriving in stealthy doodles on See Meenah Latino (the only original). Willow Weep for Me keeps trying to avoid its theme, and Duke Ellington's swinger Great Times is a classic Tracey uptempo vehicle. One of the great British jazz stories rumbles triumphantly on.