Links to some of Milestones's friends and associates

Musicians:

Roger Beaujolais
The UK's leading vibraphone player
http://www.rogerbeaujolais.com

Graeme Culham Jazz Quintet
Essex-based band led by explosive drummer
http://www.buddys-review.moonfruit.com

Dave Ingham
Local teacher and musician, co-founder of Milestones
http://www.davidingham.co.uk

Tommaso Starace
Italian saxophonist and composer
http://www.tommasostarace.com

Kate Williams Quartet
Post-bop pianist and composer
http://www.kate-williams-quartet.com

Patrick Naylor
Great London based guitarist and composer
http://www.patricknaylor.com http://www.myspace.com/patricknaylor

Jasper Smith
Fine Norwich based guitarist and teacher
http://www.jaspersmith.com

Lewis Wright
Young vibraphone virtuoso
http://www.myspace.com/lewiswrightvibesdrums

Bruce’s Fingers
Free improv and experimental record label of remarkable composer / bassist Simon H Fell
http://www.brucesfingers.co.uk


Venues/Promoters:

Jazz Nights
Regular jazz concerts in Clare, south Suffolk
http://www.jazz-nights.com

Southwold Jazz Festival
Regular gigs and annual trad to modern festival in September
http://www.southwoldjazzfestival.co.uk

Jazz Services
The key support body for jazz in the UK
http://www.jazzservices.org.uk

Waveney Folk Club
Lowestoft fortnightly folk club running since 1972!
http://www.myspace.com/waveneyfolkclub

Peppery Productions
The best in live world music in Suffolk
http://www.peppery.co.uk

Dereham Jazz Society
Live trad, mainstream and modern jazz every Thursday in Norfolk
http://www.lakeside-jazz-club.co.uk

Ipswich Jazz Club
Concerts on (usually) the third Sunday in the month
http://www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk

Fleece Jazz at Kersey Mill
The leading live gig in South Suffolk every Friday. Formerly at Boxford.
http://www.dovbear.co.uk/fleece

Cosmic Jazz
Weekly show and blog of contemporary jazz from Ipswich Community Radio - listen online
http://www.cosmicjazz.co.uk

Ipswich Jazz Collective
New group supporting local jazz musicians
http://ipswichjazzcollective.com

Jazz at The Green Man
Barbara Capocci's long-running Tuesday night gigs of mainstream and modern on the outskirts of Norwich
http://www.norwich1.com/jazz_greenman.htm


Miscellaneous:

Geoff Harriman
Suffolk-based photographer
http://www.theimagefile.com/web/geoffreyharriman

Ferini Gallery
Lowestoft gallery and arts supporters
http://www.ferini.talktalk.net

Lowestoft Gazetteer
Local guide to Lowestoft's myriad pleasures
http://www.lowestoft.org.uk/gazetteer.htm

David Newton's Alternative Professions
For those in the know this is very funny...
http://www.davidnewton.net/prof.html

"The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif".

Henri Cartier-Bresson quoted in 'Modern Culture and the Arts', ed. J. Hall and B. Ulanov (1972)

"Unlike western music, we don't have written compositions or any fixed things. So, even I don't really know what it will be. That is the greatest thrill for me, as well as the listener, because it is like cooking fresh food and serving it hot".

Ravi Shankar interviewed by John O'Mahony (The Guardian, June 3 2008)

"When I do interviews, they say music, music, music, music, music…and I say no, no, no, no. Music is second, the human being is first. What is music for? What is anything for?"

Wayne Shorter quoted in ‘Footprints’, Michelle Mercer (2004)

"Man, I could have been a poet but this stupid music keeps coming with it"

Townes Van Zandt

The Negro
With the trumpet at his lips
Has dark moons of weariness
Beneath his eyes
Where the smoldering memory
Of slave ships
Blazed to the crack of whips
About his thighs

The negro
With the trumpet at his lips
Has a head of vibrant hair
Tamed down,
Patent-leathered now
Until it gleams
Like jet-
Were jet a crown

The music
From the trumpet at his lips
Is honey
Mixed with liquid fire
The rhythm
From the trumpet at his lips
Is ecstasy
Distilled from old desire-

Desire
That is longing for the moon
Where the moonlight's but a spotlight
In his eyes,
Desire
That is longing for the sea
Where the sea's a bar-glass
Sucker size

The Negro
With the trumpet at his lips
Whose jacket
Has a fine one-button roll,
Does not know
Upon what riff the music slips
Its hypodermic needle
To his soul -

But softly
As the tune comes from his throat
Trouble
Mellows to a golden note

'Trumpet Player', from 'Selected Poems', Langston Hughes (1959)