Posted: June 27th, 2010 | Author: Rupert Mallin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Jazz, MILESTONES, Music | 2 Comments »
GRAEME CULHAM RETURNS TO MILESTONES WITH TRIBUTE TO MASTER DRUMMER BUDDY RICH
Milestones Jazz Club kicks-off the 2010 summer programme of concerts on Sunday 4 July with a tribute to Buddy Rich featuring The Graeme Culham Sextet.Hatfield Hotel, Lowestoft
Buddy Rich was the archetypal swinging jazz drummer and fellow musician Graeme Culham has put together an up-to-date tribute to his musical hero.
‘Buddy’s Review’ is a performance of tunes based on the original big and small band arrangements that highlight the energy and swagger of Rich’s fifty-year career.
The sextet was formed in 2008 and its hard-swinging style utilizes a tight and punchy approach, full of intelligent, forthright improvisation.
Once described by the late, great Ronnie Scott as “one of the best drummers that I know of”, Graeme’s own drumming is reminiscent of Buddy Rich’s incendiary style, making him ideal to lead this young band.
Graeme has worked as a professional musician since the age of 17 including forming his own big band in 1983 and has been heard on numerous TV and radio broadcasts and with Snowboy on the Acid Jazz record label.
Graeme has learnt his art from working with top British and American musicians such as Buddy Tate, Dick Morrissey, Peter King, Ronnie Scott and Don Rendell.
The band’s full line-up features Graeme Culham (drums), Chris Lamberti (trumpet), Zak Barrett (saxes), Gareth Lumbers (saxes / flute), Dan Banks (piano) and Andy Staples (bass).
Listen to The Graeme Culham Sextet at http://www.buddys-review.moonfruit.com/#/buddys-review-audio/4533418734 or visit the club website at http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk
Admission – £7 / £6 (concession).
Posted: July 24th, 2009 | Author: Rupert Mallin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Jazz, MILESTONES, Music | No Comments »
UPLIFTING COMPOSITIONS FROM TOP UK BAND AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB
Following these successes, Woods decided to form his own band to provide an outlet for his own folk inspired compositions. http://www.myspace.com/tonywoodsproject and or http://www.tonywoods.org visit the club website at http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk
All ‘Milestones’ gigs are held on the first Sunday of every month and take place at Hotel Hatfield, Esplanade, Lowestoft with the doors opening at 8pm. (01502) 568684 for more info and help in entering the building.
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This month’s concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 2 August features modern jazz of freshness and originality from one of the UK’s top bands – The Tony Woods Project.
Alto-saxophonist and composer Tony Woods’ emotional work is full of subtle surprises that mingle hard-hitting post-bop and English folk music, a raw passionate edge with a tender lyricism.
And to carry out his vision Woods uses a beautifully pure tone on saxophone and some of the country’s finest jazz musicians.
After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music Woods worked with Kenny Wheeler, The BBC Radio Big Band and National Youth Jazz Orchestra and became a noted teacher and studio session musician.
Featuring the singular talent of Mike Outram, one of the country’s most sought after guitarists, The Tony Woods Project uses melodic, uplifting compositions along with collective and individual improvisations that are incorporated into the music’s bigger structures – a bedrock of great jazz.
Tony lists his own influences as not only jazz masters Miles Davis, Lee Konitz and Art Pepper but also the Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo Papasov and English folk singer June Tabor.
This is contemporary jazz of uncommon finesse which restores ones faith in the fact that jazz still has new directions to take.
This concert is the only date East Anglian date of a national Jazz Services tour promoting the bands new CD, ‘Wind Shadows’. A concert not to be missed!
The band’s full line-up features Tony Woods (saxophones), Mike Outram (guitar), Robert Millett (vibraphone), Andy Hamill (double bass) and Milo Fell (drums).
Listen to Tony Woods’ music at
Admission – £7 / £6 (concession).
NB Milestones Jazz Club takes place in a basement room that requires the use of stairs. If you have a disability please contact milestonesjazz@hotmail.co.uk or
“A deceptively reserved player with all kinds of hidden fires”
The Guardian
“The best of contemporary British jazz”
Musician Magazine
“If ever a band deserved a higher profile, it has to be the Tony Woods Project. European sensibility and American grooves united”
Jazz UK magazine
“Combines a jazz edge with the melodic zest of folk…delightful – a romping country dance with a contemporary urban flair”
Geoffrey Smith, Jazz Record Requests, BBC Radio 3