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 5 FEBRUARY ***

UPDATE: GIG CANCELLED
Owing to serious family illness Centre-Line have had to cancel this gig. Having taken into consideration the forecasts of poor weather and driving conditions on Sunday we have, with regret, decided not to find a replacement act.
There is no Milestones gig this month.

Centre-Line

Fresh and vibrant contemporary jazz. A powerful quartet featuring some of the UK’s most exciting musicians using a huge palette of colours and the influences of Michael Brecker, John Coltrane, John Scofield and Weather Report, playing original material with startling spontaneity and energy. With the great Russell van den Berg (tenor sax / Ewi), Jez Franks (guitar), Jon Harvey (bass guitar) and Darren Altman (drums). Listen to the music of Centre-Line here and here and watch YouTube footage of Centre-Line here

‘Classy contemporary jazz with a personal stamp’
The Guardian

‘A group that deserves to be heard. I am very impressed by the writing and musicianship as evidenced on their new CD recording’
Peter Erskine, jazz musician

‘Altman’s rhythmic bite perfectly complimenting Berg’s harmonic bark. Balanced by the wonderfully grooving rhythm section, Berg’s explosive chops that maintain a sense of drama and surprise through every twisting bar, this is a band to watch’
Jazzwise magazine

‘…full of sustained, great unique playing and writing. One can just feel the joy that these close friends must conjure up on the bandstand’
Randy Brecker, jazz musician

Part of a national Jazz Services tour

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)