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Welcome to Milestones Jazz Club, since 1996 Lowestoft's premier
jazz venue!
Whilst catering to a
wide range of styles, Milestones highlights the more modern end
of the jazz spectrum in an informal, friendly atmosphere. From small
trios to 18-piece big bands, we feature everything from bebop to
hard bop, latin to fusion, cool jazz to free jazz. For details of
our next gig see below
World class musicians
performing in recent years have included Peter King, Don Weller,
Ingrid Laubrock, Henry Lowther, Jack Parnell, Jim Mullen, Roger
Beaujolais, Polly Gibbons and The Eastern Bloc Big Band.
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To attend Milestones
concerts you can pay on the door or book online here
Milestones is
resident at Hotel Hatfield, Esplanade, Lowestoft and opens
its doors at 7pm on the first Sunday of every month with
an admission price of usually £14 or £7 for under 25s - no club membership
necessary. For enquiries, information on how to find us or to
join our extensive mailing list please click
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Sunday
7 April
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7pm
doors, 7.30pm start
David
Preston's
"Purple/Black"
with Sebastian Rochford and Kevin Glasgow
A band
of the moment on a national tour led by guitarist and composer
David Preston, a finalist at the Montreux International Guitar
competition. Sinewy grooves nestle amongst dramatic and exciting
compositions of cinematic scope with echoes of Bill Frisell and
Pat Metheny. Purple/Black teams Preston with two imposing figures
on the UK jazz scene: the mighty ECM recording artist Sebastian
Rochford (drums) and Kevin Glasgow (bass). A concert not to be
missed!
Visit
David Preston's website here,
and watch YouTube footage here.
"Known for his ability to draw
on a breadth of jazz styles, Preston's compositions were clearly
summoned from a place of great depth, stretching the musicianship
of all members"
Jazzwise magazine
"Reimagining jazz - with modern
invention and creative innovation"
Jazz Journal
"Virtuosic"
The Guardian
"You are playing some scary s#!*"
Kurt Rosenwinkel
"Amazingly talented"
Gary Husband
Admission
£14 / £7 (U25) on the door or book online here
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Ivars
Galenieks
(1952-2024)
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"OK,
we're in a recession. Now you can all know what it's like to be
jazz musicians".
Saxophonist
Gilad Atzmon to the audience at The Bath Festival, 25 May 2008,
quoted in The Guardian (31 May 2008)
The
refrain will be coming soon: that's the part I like the best and
the abrupt way in which it flings itself forward, like a cliff against
the sea. For the moment it's the jazz that's playing; there's no
melody, only notes, a host of little jolts. They know no rest, an
unchanging order gives birth to them and destroys them, without
ever giving them time to recover, to exist for themselves. They
run, they hurry, they strike me with a sharp blow in passing and
are obliterated. I should quite like to hold them back, but I know
that if I managed to stop one, nothing would remain between my fingers
but a vulgar, doleful sound. I must accept their death; I must even
will it; I know of few harsher or stronger impressions.
From 'La Nausée', Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
"The
blues is real, its not perverted or thought about, its
not a concept. It is a chair, not a design for a chair, or a better
chair or a bigger chair or a chair with leather on ... it is the
first chair. It is a chair for sitting on, not for looking at or
being appreciated. You sit on that music".
John
Lennon interviewed by Jann S Wenner, Rolling Stone (1970)
"I
can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones".
John
Cage quoted in 'Conversing with Cage', Richard Kostelanetz (1988)
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