current gigs
Weds 15 Sept - Loz Speyer Quartet - *live* at the Vortex Jazz Club (two shows 7.30 and 9.30pm)
Fri 15 Oct - Triology (Loz Speyer/Andrew Lisle/Thodoris Ziarkas) + Sue Lynch Duo - *live* at Hundred Years Gallery, London E2
Fri 7 Jan 2022 - Loz Speyer's Time Zone - at Birmingham Jazz - with photos of Cuba and music from the album "Clave Sin Embargo"
Fri 7 January 2022 - Time Zone at Birmingham Jazz
recent gigs
2021
5 Sept - London Improvisers' Orchestra, at St Mary's N16
24 July - Gnawa Blues Allstars with Simo Lagnawi, at Hootananny Brixton
14 July - Art / Improv collaboration - Some Loose Assemblies 2 by Claire Zakiewicz - live at Hundred Years Gallery
SPHERICAL IMPROV - facebook livestream with "Transcendence" live art and dance in a shop window in Old St.
27 May - with Chris Biscoe, Marcio Mattos, Emily Shapiro and dancer Petra Haller, artist Gwendolyn Kassenaar
13 May - with Steve Beresford, Dee Byrne, Olie Brice and artist Gwendolyn Kassenaar
Fri 21 May - Gnawa Blues Allstars with Simo Lagnawi, LIVE at Hootananny Brixton
TIME ZONE TOURING ALBUM "CLAVE SIN EMBARGO"
-- Tue 18 Feb 2020 - St Ives Jazz Club, Cornwall
-- Mon 17 Feb 2020 - North Devon Jazz Club, Appledore, Devon
-- Sun I Dec 2019 - Colchester Arts Centre, with special guest Omar Puente
-- Wed 16 Oct 2019 - album launch at the Vortex Jazz Club, London
9 Feb 2020 - Improv Trumpet Quartet - broadcast live on Resonance104.4FM
Jim Dvorak, Kevin Davey, Paul Shearsmith, Loz Speyer - trumpets
2019
Improvised music/dance collaboration (ES/DE/UK): with Paloma Carrasco (cello), Ingo Reuleke & Kristin Guttenburg (dance), Wieland Müller (drums), Alessandra Rombola (flute)
-- Fri 13 Dec @Cruce, Dr. Fourquet 5, Madrid
-- Sun 15 Dec @Estudio 3, Núñez de Arce 11, Madrid
-- Mon 16 Dec @Espacio 3, Buenavista 39, Madrid
Sun I Dec 2019 - Colchester Arts Centre, with special guest Omar Puente
Fri 22 Nov 8pm: Inner Space @the Verdict Jazz Club, Brighton
Fri 17 Nov: Inner Space - EFG London Jazz Festival @GROW Hackney, E9 (with Xhosa Cole - alto sax)
Wed 16 Oct: Time Zone album launch @Vortex Jazz Club
Sun 1 Sept - London Improvisers Orchestra - St Mary's, N16
Weds 7 Aug - Gnawa Blues Allstars - Tribe of Doris Festival
Sun 7 July - John Bennett Band - Ivy House London SE15
Sat 6 July - Conga de Cocoteros - Walthamstow Festival
Sun 16 June - Gnawa Blues Allstars - Hootananny, Brixton
Fri 31 May - INNER SPACE - live broadcast, Resonance 104.4 FM
Weds 10 April - By Pass Now Open (w/ Hugh Metcalfe - guitar, Neil Metcalf - flute) - Klinker Club, London E2
Tues 26 Mar - David Leahy's Musicians in Space - Ambica 3, Marylebone Road, NW1
Weds 20 Mar - Tumbatareco - SET, Dalston Lane, London E8
Sat 26 Jan - Loz Speyer Quartet - Vortex Jazz Club - 24 hour gig in honour of David Mossman
2018
Sun 9 Dec - Simo Lagnawi's Gnawa Blues All Stars - Hootananny, Efra Road, Brixton SW2 1DF
Tues 20 Nov - TIME ZONE in the London Jazz Festival - Ridley Road Market Bar, London E8
Tues 23 Oct - INSPIRATIONS QUARTET (w/ Josephine Davies) - Ridley Road Market Bar, London E8
Thurs 27 Sept - INNER SPACE - Inventions and Dimensions at the Ram Jam Club, Kingston-on-Thames
Sun 2 Sept - John Bennett Band at the Vortex Jazz Club
Sun 29 July - John Bennett Band at Fox and Firkin, Lewisham
Sat 4 Aug - Tumbatareco at Skronkfest New River Studios, 199 Eade Road, London N4 1DN
Sun 5 Aug - London Improvisers Orchestra at i'Klectik, London SE1
Inner Space Tour, May/June 2018
Fri 13 April - Verdict Jazz 159 Edward St, Brighton
Wed 23 May - Broomhill Art Hotel Muddiford, North Devon
Thu 24 May – Soundcellar The Blue Boar, Poole, Dorset
Fri 25 May - Bebop Club The Bear, Bristol
Sat 2 June - POSK Hammersmith, London W6
Tue 5 June - Jazz at the Spotted Dog Digbeth, Birmingham
Wed 6 June - Jazz at the Lescar Sheffield
Thu 7 June - Matt and Phreds Northern Quarter, Manchester
Fri 8 June - Wakefield Jazz Wakefield, Yorks
Sat 9 June - Zeffirelli’s Compston Rd, Ambleside, Cumbria
Tue 26 June - Vortex Jazz Club Dalston, London N16
Tour supported with public funding from Arts Council England
gigs archive - edited highlights
Tue 15 May - Impromptu Quartet (w/ George Crowley) - Jazz@Wu's - tunes by Dave Holland, Ornette, Coltrane
Tue 17 Apr - Arkestration: the music of Sun Ra (6-piece w/James Allsopp) - Jazz@Wu's, London E8
Tue 13 Mar - w/ Merseyside Improvisers Orchestra - Open Circuit Festival at FACT, Liverpool
Wed 31 Jan - TIME ZONE - Bull's Head Barnes London SW13
Tue 30 Jan - TIME ZONE - Vortex Jazz Club London N16
2017
Tue 5 Dec - Tumbatareco - SKRONK#35 - New River Studios, London N4
Sun 22 Oct - guest with Roger Odell Trio - Jazznights, Clare, Suffolk
Tue 10 Oct - Loz Speyer Quartet "In the Key of Monk" - Jazz@Wu's - Thelonious Monk's 100th Birthday!
Tue 27 June: Inner Space - launching album "Life on the Edge" - Vortex Jazz Club, London N16
Sun 11 June: David Leahy's 'Musicians in Space' - i'Klectik, London SE1
Sat 10 June: Gnawa Blues All Stars - Rich Mix, London E1
Sat 27 May: ‘Musicians in space’ w/ Merseyside Improvisers Orchestra, at MDI, Liverpool
Fri 7 Apr: Inner Space - Fire Music at The Old Fire Station, Hadleigh, Essex
Tue 21 Mar, +18 Apr: Loz Speyer Quartet +DJ E-Man - Jazz@Wu's, London E8
Wed 25 Jan: Tumbatareco - Flim Flam Club, Ryan's, London N16
2016
Sun 4 Dec: Time Zone at the Vortex Jazz Club, London N16
Wed 30 Nov: Inner Space - the Verdict, Brighton BN2 0JB
Sun 4 Sept - Markov Networks for Free Improvisers - New River Studios, London N4
18 June - the music of SUN RA - Merseyside Improvisors Orchestra, MDI, Liverpool
12 May - Inner Space + Alex Bonney duo - i'Klectik Art-Lab, London SE1
20 Apr - Loz Speyer Quartet + Tin/Bag - i'Klectik Art-Lab London SE1
17 Apr - Gnawa Blues All Stars - Hootananny, London SW2
21 Feb - Tumbatareco +Beresford/Fukuda duo - Vortex Jazz Club, London N16
15 Feb - By Pass Now Open - Klinker improv night, London E2
2015 Inner Space - UK tour - "Jazz Beyond the Limits"
1 Nov - Milestones, Hatfield Hotel, Lowestoft
4 Nov - Way Out West, the Bull's Head, Barnes, W London
6 Nov - Birmingham Jazz, the Red Lion Birmingham
24 Nov - Jazz NE/Schmazz, Jazz Cafe, Newcastle
+25 Nov - music workshop at the Sage, Gateshead
25 Nov - Hull Jazz, the Goodfellowship Inn, Hull
26 Nov - Fusebox, the Fox and Newt, Leeds
6 Dec - Ashburton Live, St Lawrence Chapel, S Devon
7 Dec - North Devon Jazz Club, Appledore, N Devon
+8 Dec - open masterclass at Cornwall College, St Austell
8 Dec - Restormel Arts, Charlestown, St Austell, Cornwall
+12 Dec - 2-5pm, music workshop at the Vortex Jazz Club
14 Dec - Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, E London
Tour supported by funding from Arts Council England
Oct 2015 - Tumbatareco + NOCZ at i'Klectik, London
Oct 2015 - Time Zone at Karamel, London
June 2015 - "Vortex presents the Loz Speyer Real Book"
- Inner Space Music and TIME ZONE - the Vortex, London
May 2015 - Gnawa Blues All Stars - Knockengorroch Festival, Scotland and HiFi Club, Leeds
Sept 2014 - TIME ZONE - Scarborough Jazz Festival
April 2013 - Inner Space CD Launch - the Vortex
2012 - TIME ZONE - UK tour - "Crossing the Line"
Ealing Jazz Festival
Broomhill Art Hotel
Cardiff Jazz Society
Hebden Bridge Trades Club
Junction Goole
Vortex Jazz Club London
Colchester Arts Centre
the Green Man Norwich
2012 - w/ Sarah Jane Morris - Purcell Room, London Jazz Festival
2011 - TIME ZONE + Ewegbemí Batá Ensemble + DJ Natty Bo - CD launch at Rich Mix, London
2011 - Inner Space Music SW Tour - Teignmouth, Bristol, Sherborne
2011 - w/ Bollywood Brass Band - Suoni delle Dolimiti Festival, Italy
2010 - w/ Yann Tiersen - La Route du Rock Festival, St Malo, France
2009 - Proyecto Evocación - Festival del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
2005 - TIME ZONE - a week's residency opposite Airto Moreira - Ronnie Scott's, London
2000 - Speyer/ Blackwell Duo - Festival 'Printemps de Jazz', Nîmes, France
