CUTTING-EDGE JAZZ FROM CENTRE-LINE AT MILESTONES JAZZ CLUB
This months concert at Milestones Jazz Club on Sunday 5 February features a powerful quartet of the UK's leading musicians playing contemporary jazz of startling spontaneity and energy - Centre-Line.
Centre-Line was founded on a 17-year musical partnership between saxophonist Russell van den Berg and drummer Darren Altman performing original groove-based and melodic material that draws on the influences of Michael Brecker, John Scofield, John Coltrane, Weather Report and The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Centre-Line always sound like an integrated unit, using a wide palette of colours that grooves and surprises - aggressively rocky one moment, playful and swinging the next, delving into the flexible language of jazz.
The quartet utilises out-of-the-ordinary instruments such as the EWI (Electric Wind Instrument) to create an array of electronic soundscapes that mingle with the more traditional set-up of saxophone, guitar, bass and drums.
As prolific composers all four members contribute to the band's wide-ranging reportoire and are in demand to work with other noted musicians in a variety of styles from respected jazzers like Kenny Wheeler and Jim Mullen to the hit West End show 'The Rat Pack', from Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Debbie Harry to the Ronnie Scott's house band.
The bands members are also lecturers and visiting instructors at the UK's leading music colleges like the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall, Trinity and Purcell Schools of Music and the influential jazz course at Leeds College of Music.
This concert is part of a nationwide tour supported by Jazz Services to promote their new CD, 'A Virtual Joyride', and is their only date in East Anglia.
The band’s full line-up features Russell van den Berg (tenor sax / EWI), Jez Franks (guitar), Jon Harvey (bass) and Darren Altman (drums).
Listen to Centre-Line's music at http://centrelinemusic.com/?page_id=1535 or via 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).
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