Monday, April 26, 2010

MAY AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB

SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM LOZ SPEYER AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB

This month’s concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 2 May once again features something different with a respected trumpet player pushing jazz into uncharted areas – Loz Speyer’s Inner Space Music.

The music of trumpet / flugelhorn player and composer Loz Speyer is hard to pin down - by turns boisterous, gritty, graceful and swinging.

Speyer draws on the influences of Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Steve Lacy and Dave Holland, the rhythms of Cuba and qigong philosophy to make a heady brew that is always intriguing and exciting.

While the band’s music is technically brilliant, it always remains accessible and warm, treading a fine line between the composed and the improvised.

Inner Space Music released their debut CD, ‘Five Animal Dances’, in 2008, inspired by the five animal qigong forms originally designed by Taoist masters in ancient China.

Loz Speyer has long been a respected musician on the London jazz scene appearing around the UK and at prestigious venues like The Vortex and Ronnie Scott’s Club in London.

The articulate, probing sound of Inner Space Music also features the bustling, interactive energy of Rachel Musson (tenor / soprano sax), Olie Brice (double bass) and Graham Fox (drums).

Listen to Loz Speyer's music at http://www.myspace.com/lozspeyer or 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.

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 (01502) 568684 for more info and help in entering the building.

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Quotes :

"Sophisticated and harmonically intriguing… well worth waiting for", John Fordham, The Guardian

"One of the happiest evenings I've heard in jazz for many a long night…music as rare as this defies description", Karl Dallas, The Morning Star

"More lyrical than free, and human than abstract, this is serious fun of the first order", Mike Butler, Metro

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Hobbies - Alive & Kicking

Bird Man of Cromer

It used to be herring gulls, now the Bird Man of Cromer swoops down upon unsuspecting visitors.

What is it?

Is it an oven? Am upmarket b-b-q? A hive?

Sunday, April 11, 2010

THE RUST ROBOT OF RECENT HISTORY

Back when 'Tomorrow's World' on BBC TV was really exciting, robots were going to save us. Ironically, anything robotic on Dr Who looked so dysfunctional and tacky, real robots were going to save us. However, though robotic arms spray car chassis, it still takes hours for a 2010 robot to fold a towel. That is, it has taken over 30 years for a robot to be made that can 'compute' such a simple task - very, very slowly.
Bring back tomorrow's world.

Linking To The Past: Ted Ellis

I don't usually like poetry fixed to signs or carved in granite within National Trust properties but these few lines by the late Naturalist Ted Ellis tell so much about the Big World.

Saturday, April 03, 2010