Time Zone: Crossing the Line – review

(Spherical) This album from Cuba-devoted Hackney trumpeter Loz Speyer means what its title says, all the way from the imaginative fusions of Cuban dance forms and pungent contemporary jazz of his Time Zone sextet, to the snaps of Santiago and his Cuban family's hard-won travel documents on the artwork. Martin Hathaway's soulful alto sax sound and Speyer's trumpet phrasing (like Miles Davis in a salsa brass section) make a flexible front line, and on tracks such as the opening Conjunto and the j...

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