AVALON TRIO TAKE JAZZ IN A NEW DIRECTION AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB
This month’s concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 5 June features some of the UK’s most respected jazz musicians taking the music in new directions - The Avalon Trio.
The improvising trio of Tony Woods (alto saxophone/wood flute/alto clarinet), Pete Churchill (piano) and Robert Millett (percussion) takes its inspiration from the short song forms of English composers Delius, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Finzi and John Ireland.
The band will be performing mercurial music from their debut album, ‘Forlana’, which draws on the rich histories of jazz, folk and twentieth century classical music without losing any of the original subtlety, depth or beauty.
Through research and analysis, the Avalon Trio has found harmonic and artistic connections between the music of these great composers and contemporary jazz.
Just as American songbook ‘standards’ have been used as vehicles for improvisation by jazz musicians since the 1930s, so these great melodies of orchestral and chamber pieces are transformed in a modern jazz setting.
The trio is a collaboration of internationally renowned musicians and composers that includes saxophonist Tony Woods and percussionist Robert Millett.
Pianist Pete Churchill has long been recognised as not only a great musician but also one of the UK’s leading jazz educators, teaching at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Trinity College of Music.
The band’s collective CV includes touring and recording in the UK, Europe and the US and working with diverse artists like Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Bobby McFerrin, English National Touring Opera, Abdullah Ibrahim, Norma Winstone and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
These musicians have performed extensively in the UK’s most prestigious venues, weather it be Ronnie Scott’s or the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican and Royal Albert Hall.
The band’s full line-up features Tony Woods (alto saxophone/wood flute/alto clarinet), Pete Churchill (piano) and Robert Millett (percussion).
This concert is the only East Anglian date of a nationwide tour supported by Jazz Services.
***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).
"Definitely jazz for the 21st century", Jazz Journal
"Woods is phenomenal - spontaneous but exacting amazing control over his instrument, and as virtuosic as you like without being a show-off", BBC Music Magazine
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