FreeTrio Loz Speyer (Trumpet) Olly Blanchflower (Double Bass) Mark Sanders (Drums) Three wonderful improvisers begin our 2023 programme. Loz Speyer is a fabulous trumpet player with an immediately recognisable musical voice and a yard long CV of playing with the UK's finest improvisers. Joined by an incredible rhythm section and in support of new album 'Open Territory', Loz says of this group: A trio of trumpet, bass and drums is a truly elemental lineup - it’s like three points of a triangle pinning out a central space where anything can happen. There’s a big space between trumpet and bass that can be harmonised by the drums… and the basic elements of music are all in there. It's a format that I keep returning to, with or without compositions framing the improvisation - and always the key is that open sound. In Freetrio there was never any pre-conceived material, just spontaneous interaction, each time the three of us discovering a musical form as it evolved. We had a good time with this - and we hope you will too.' https://spherical-records.bandcamp.com/album/open-territory Greg Cordez Quartet Greg Cordez - Bass/Compositions Jake McMurchie - Tenor Saxophone Steve Banks - Guitar Matt Brown - Drums A near mythical musician on the Bristol contemporary jazz scene, Cordez returns from a Neapolitan sabbatical with new music. Everything this man plays and writes is imbued with depth, meaning and beauty. He brings a killer line up of wonderful Bristol improvisers - Catch him whilst you can!

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