Time Zone at Vortex Jazz Club

Cuban-Jazz fusion of a new and different kind.

“a mix of mutated American hard-bop and classic Afro-Cuban music that turns out to be a vigorous display of independent character... Speyer has done things his own way and the result is a contemporary Latin-Jazz of considerable muscle.”
John Fordham, the Guardian

“There is an intriguingly saturnine quality in both the leader’s compositions and the band’s execution, a sense of hard-edged modernity that has a side-winding thrust reminiscent of Dave Holland's ensemble at times... An ensemble led by a trumpeter/composer who has absorbed the essence of Cuban music and distilled it quite cunningly into an improvisatory context with no compromise to either culture. The result is gritty, graceful sounds with a dark-light intensity.”...

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Cuban-Jazz fusion of a new and different kind.

“a mix of mutated American hard-bop and classic Afro-Cuban music that turns out to be a vigorous display of independent character... Speyer has done things his own way and the result is a contemporary Latin-Jazz of considerable muscle.”
John Fordham, the Guardian

“There is an intriguingly saturnine quality in both the leader’s compositions and the band’s execution, a sense of hard-edged modernity that has a side-winding thrust reminiscent of Dave Holland's ensemble at times... An ensemble led by a trumpeter/composer who has absorbed the essence of Cuban music and distilled it quite cunningly into an improvisatory context with no compromise to either culture. The result is gritty, graceful sounds with a dark-light intensity.”
Kevin Legendre, Echoes

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