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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.
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TO BE CONFIRMED Full details will be posted here shortly ---------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY 2 JUNE
The
Visit Tori's website
here
and watch YouTube footage of Tori with various bands here "Freestone
has clearly listened widely, but her musicality and broad experiences
have stirred all that input into an imposingly original sound" "The
versatile tenorist/flautist Tori Freestone up front...her sound
pure-toned yet incisive in the upper register..."
"A flute
and reeds player of nicely sinuous melodic invention"
"Tori
Freestone has a warm and open tone, her playing is melodic and innovative…exploring
the full range of the saxophone"
Admission: £9 / £5 (U25) |
The
return of a great band. A trio of just sax, bass and drums may sound
like a dry prospect but the widely admired composer, tenor saxophonist
and flautist Tori Freestone makes it distinctive, exciting and playful.
A free-flowing, intelligent style that highlights a great gift for
melodic invention is harnessed by a trio currently on tour and playing
at the top of their powers. Part of a UK tour supporting the band's
new album with the wonderful Dave Mannington (double bass) and Tim
Giles (drums).|
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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
Cage quoted in 'Conversing with Cage', Richard Kostelanetz (1988) |