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Loz
Speyer’s INNER SPACE with James Allsopp
@ Vortex Jazz Club on Tuesday 19th May
11 Gillet
Square, London, N168AZ
Doors
7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM - 2 sets of music
Standard £15 / Vortex Members £7.5 / Students & UC beneficiaries £6.25
Bookings → https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/loz-speyers-inner-space-with-james-allsopp/
Line-up:
Loz
Speyer – Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Dee Byrne – Alto saxophone
James Allsopp – Tenor Saxophone
Larry Bartley – Double bass
Gary Willcox – Drum kit
Inner Space plays Jazz of a rare warmth and immediacy – compositions for improvisers with roots in both jazz and free playing. Speyer’s writing for the band creates space for the group to explore new areas and discover where the music might GO! – with a set of Jazz Portraits that celebrate the innovators of Free Jazz, while drawing deeply on the Jazz tradition, back to Bebop and New Orleans. Each piece evolves a life of its own as revealed in the here and NOW by these five distinctive musicians.
“One of
the happiest evenings I’ve heard in jazz for many a long night… Music as rare
as this defies description. Go along and see them!” – Karl Dallas, the Morning
Star
Inner
Space has been stirring things up lately as an augmented lineup playing the
music of Sun Ra. On this night they return to their home ground as a quintet
playing Speyer’s originals, this time with special guest James Allsopp –
“perhaps the most gifted British saxophonist of his generation, not to mention
the most adaptable” (Underscore music magazine). A star player in his own
right, James also featured in Loz’s earlier Sun Ra project, Arkestration; and
this new INNER SPACE collaboration is all set to fire up the bandstand with
fresh ideas and new directions.
“Three
recordings in 20 years for Inner Space… indicates a patient cultivation of
their art. And the way that the group sound remains identifiable even though
Speyer is the only player all the band’s incarnations have in common shows the
value of a clear musical vision…
“The
composing is reliably successful at offering engaging vehicles for
extemporisation. But this dance between freedom and form needs more than that
to succeed. Much of the time it relies on mainly motivic improvisation, with
its particular demands. Speyer leads the way in meeting them. Rather like the
great Bobby Bradford to my ear, just when you feel a solo excursion is
beginning to fade he is able to apply the Ornette Coleman method of inflating
another bubble of new melody, apparently at will.
“That’s
something only the best players in this school can bring off consistently … As
the CD testifies, it makes their live performance a richly rewarding affair.
Hearing them do it again in person shows a band going from strength to
strength.”
Jon
Turney, UK Jazz News
https://spherical-records.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-leipzig