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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
3 November
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7pm doors, 7.30pm start
The Blue Town Trio featuring Jim Mullen, Zoe Francis and Ross
Stanley Three leading voices on the UK jazz scene join
forces for a compelling survey of lesser known gems from the Great
American Songbook, drawing on new readings, fizzy sophistication
and the directness of the blues to show what an enjoyable art
straight ahead jazz can be. Featuring the principal swinging guitarist
of his generation, Jim Mullen; emotional and subtle vocalist,
Zoe Francis; and the deft grooves of Hammond organ virtuoso, Ross
Stanley. Visit Zoe's website here,watch You Tube footage of Jim and Zoe here and listen to The Blue town Trio here.
"One of the great jazz guitarists
working today” “World class” “Stylish, warm and intelligent singing, never
over embellishing, with respect to the melody and lyric”
Admission £14 / £7 (U25) on the door or book online here
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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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