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Early Career 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. Band Leader 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. Freelance Drummer 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. Educator 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. Promoter 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.