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Musicians
page For information about playing at Milestones including equipment and facilities 
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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. Help us to move into the 21st century by building our online presence - please go to our Facebook page and follow, like and share everything.. To attend Milestones concerts you can pay on the door or book online here
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Sunday
6 October
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7pm doors, 7.30pm start
The Ben Holder Trio Milestones debut for the charismatic young violinist
who always stages a hugely enjoyable show. Focusing on jazz standards
via the hard swinging Hot Club style of Stéphane Grappelli
and Django Reinhardt, Holder’s confidence, warmth and flexibility
is married to his visible passion for making live improvised music
and connecting with his audience. The feverish energy is supported
by the great Caley Groves (guitar) and Paul Jefferies (double
bass). Not to be missed! Visit Ben Holders's website here,watch YouTube footage of him here and listen to Ben Holder here. "Get
your feet tapping and your jaw dropping at the speed of his fingers.
Top quality musicianship and utter entertainment"
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Colin Pincott
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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, 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)
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones". John
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