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.

*** NEXT GIG: SUNDAY 2 JUNE ***

Zoe Gilby
and
The Andy Champion Trio

The return by popular demand of the gifted young singer from Newcastle with a deeply expressive and agile quality. The influence of Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson and Anita O'Day are mixed with a healthy dose of the blues on a repertoire of American songbook classics and striking original material. Sympathetic support from the endlessly resourceful Andy Champion (double bass), Simon Brown (piano) and Brian McAllister (drums).

Listen to Zoe here and watch YouTube footage here

"Deserves wider recognition and a major record deal. An excellent CD"
Courtney Pine, BBC Radio 2

"Sparkling debut by an exuberant singer whose lively personality comes across on every track. Sheer enjoyment throughout"
Jazz UK magazine

"Modern, mature... swings like a bell"
Carol Kidd MBE, singer

"An impressive performance from a sophisticated young singer. Her voice has real character. Powerfully sultry and expertly handled"
Jazz Journal International

"A wide vocal range, warm timbre and clear diction which she uses
skillfully to unveil her moods. It's clear that she's already found her own voice"
All About Jazz USA

Admission - £7 / £6 (concession)

"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, it’s not perverted or thought about, it’s 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)