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Time Zone at Vortex Jazz Club
Courtesy of Loz Speyer | Posted on March 17, 2014
Where
Vortex Jazz Club
11 Gillett Street
London
Map
020 7254 4097
When
Wed, April 2, 2014
20:30
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Musicians
Loz Speyer
trumpetMartin Hathaway
saxophone, altoStuart Hall
guitarDave Manington
bassMaurizio Ravalico
percussionAndy Ballantyne
saxophone, tenorAbout
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.”...