Loz Speyer – trumpet, flugelhorn
Martin Hathaway – alto sax, bass clarinet
Stuart Hall – guitar
Dave Manington – double bass
Andy Ball – drums
Maurizio Ravalico – congas
+ special guest, percussionist Satin Singh
“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… Gritty, graceful sounds with a dark-light intensity.” – Kevin Legendre, Echoes
TIME ZONE plays an innovative “deep fusion” of Cuban music and Jazz – soulful, catchy and rhythmically provocative. Cuban elements are re-assembled, as in collage, or mutated to fit odd meters, yet still with a Cuban feel – Bilingual compositions where the groove can change in mid flow, like suddenly turning a corner, a new view opening up, another way of looking at things.
This unusual, deeply humourous music expresses some of the surreal complexity of life in Cuba – and of life in general – there are usually at least things things going on at once! Speyer‘s compositions for Time Zone grew out of the collision of Cuban culture with his own, in a personal/family sense as well as a musical sense; and they draw fully on the band’s extensive experience in both musical languages…