MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB, LOWESTOFT – AUGUST GIG

 
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).
 
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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