current gigs
Postponed (3 May 2020) - Standards with the Roger Odell Trio - Jazznights, the Bell, Clare Suffolk
TIME ZONE TOURING NEW ALBUM "CLAVE SIN EMBARGO":
Postponed (27 Nov 2020) - Birmingham Jazz at 1000 Trades, Birmingham
Postponed (27 Mar 2020) - the Cinnamon Club, Altrincham, Manchester
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
click here for CD and digital on Bandcamp / click here for album on Spotify
Click here to hear Improv trumpet quartet - broadcast live on Resonance104.4FM, 9th Feb 2020
Jim Dvorak, Kevin Davey, Paul Shearsmith, Loz Speyer - trumpets
recent gigs
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 Music - 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 Music + 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 Music: 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 - "Crossing the Line" UK tour
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
