Stan Tracey
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Stanley William Tracey was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tracey's best known recording is the 1965 album Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood", which is based on the BBC radio drama Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas.
Tracey playing in the 100 Club in the 1980s
Under Milk Wood
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Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The BBC commissioned the play, which was later adapted for the stage. A film version directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972, and another adaptation of the play, directed by Pip Broughton, was staged for television for the 60th anniversary in 2014.
The Coach & Horses in Tenby, where Thomas is reputed to have been so drunk that he left his manuscript to Under Milk Wood on a stool
2–3 The Croft, the former Salad Bowl Café
Blue plaque indicating that Thomas first read from Under Milk Wood on 2 October 1953
The Sailor's Home Arms, New Quay, now known as the Seahorse Inn, which provided the name for the Sailors Arms