A NEW GENERATION OF CUTTING-EDGE UK JAZZ AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB
This month’s concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 5 December features a new generation of cutting-edge UK jazz musicians with Trish Clowes’s Tangent.
Tenor saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes will showcase original material that distils the influences of Wayne Shorter, Astor Piazzolla and modern classical music into a take on contemporary jazz that is both intelligent and quietly elegant.
Her newly released debut CD, produced by Gwilym Simcock, is exceptional for the scope of her compositions for jazz group and orchestra and has picked up rave reviews including ‘CD of the Week’ in the Evening Standard.
Trish is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where she studied saxophone and composition with Iain Ballamy and performed with legendary names like Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine and Dave Holland.
Her interest in composition has grown beyond the standard jazz form, experimenting with tango, string quartet music and poem settings, leading to her being commissioned to write for various projects in the last few years.
Trish has a warm and sensuous sound, reflective at times of Stan Getz and Bobby Wellins, and she avoids playing fusillades of notes where a handful will serve the music better.
The band’s repertoire is intelligently paced between lilting or brooding episodes, open–ended improvisation and uncluttered lyricism.
A slew of the UK’s top young players join Trish including not only the UK's leading young jazz vibraphonist Lewis Wright, now playing with the top UK band Empirical but also the unbeatable rhythm section of Calum Gourley and James Maddren, more recently heard with the Mercury Music Prize nominated Kit Downes Trio.
Fresh from dates at the London Jazz Festival and Birmingham Symphony Hall, this concert promises to be a must see for those on the lookout for young new jazz talent.
The band’s full line-up features Trish Clowes (tenor sax), Lewis Wright (vibraphone), Calum Gourlay (double bass) and James Maddren (drums).
This concert is the only East Anglian date of a national tour supported by Jazz Services.
Listen to the music of Trish Clowes by visiting http://www.trishclowes.com/Site/Music.html or http://www.myspace.com/trishclowes/music or via the club website at 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:
"Clowes's promise – and ambitious vision – is palpable", The Guardian
"The music is ambitious, fresh and experimental. Trish is a talent to watch for 2011", Julian Joseph, BBC Radio 3
"She plays wonderful tenor saxophone with a lightness of tone reminiscent of the young Stan Getz and composes luminous music that inhabits that intriguing world at the ill-defined edges of jazz and contemporary classical music", The Observer
"Clowes is an extremely gifted writer … her tenor tone is round, sure and pure, sometimes almost Getzian’, Chris Parker, Jazzwise magazine
