Jazz Mondays @ The Fox Hosted by Kaiyo featuring MARK KAVUMA
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## KAIYO and the FOX in Palmers Green present: Mark Kavuma
# "...rising star of the trumpet, “kick-ass” - DOWNBEAT Magazine. “He’s going to be big” - All About Jazz
Mark Kavuma has established himself as a key player in the British Jazz explosion. As leader, he has released three albums, ‘Kavuma’ (2018), voted among the best albums of the year by Downbeat magazine and The Banger Factory (2019), both released with UK record label Ubuntu Music. Mark’s third release is the first offering on his own label ‘Banger Factory Records’, Kavuma and The Banger Factory - Arashi No Ato (2021).
Discover Kavuma’s music and enter a world where vibes, blues and rhythm collide with gospel, soul and spiritual jazz. With over a decade of experience playing the trumpet and keys in London’s rapidly expanding jazz scene, his unique musical alchemy has the means to bring jazz back to the dance floor.
Mark infuses this indelible musical movement with the energy, attitude and swagger of a new generation of creators. He has a unique and distinctive trumpet sound. His lyricism, soulful tone and grace of technique spread infectious joy and mutual excitement among audiences and fellow musicians alike.
Mark’s main outfit, The Banger Factory, is a collective that is contingent upon bringing the people a good time. From a weekly residency in Brixton’s POW, over the last seven years, the band has developed and nourished a truly unmistakable group sound and attracts and features some of the most gifted and engaging musicians on the scene today. “What is more, the band brings together and unifies the local London jazz scene. Spreading love and good vibes.”
A gifted educator and inspirational creative enabler, Mark is an associate Music Leader for the Tomorrow’s Warriors programme, and is also involved in their professional performance ensembles including the acclaimed Nu Civilisation Orchestra, Jazz Jamaica Small band and Jazz Jamaica All Stars. He is also a brass tutor and leader at London based carnival band Kinetika Bloco.
Starting his professional career in his late teens, earlier career highlights include being featured twice with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra, touring Europe with the legendary Salif Keita and Less Ambassadeurs and touring the world in Peter Brooke’s Production of ‘The Suit’.
He has recently released a debut piano album: Zaitz & Kavuma – Back To Back (2022) and also released the Kinetika Bloco All stars album, ‘Legacy’ (2021) featuring a host of London’s burgeoning new jazz generation inc. Theon Cross, Nubya Garcia, Ruben Fox, Sheila Maurice Grey and Reuben James, on Banger Factory Records.
Mark came to prominence in the mid 1980s with the influential and radical big band Loose Tubes, which he toured with throughout the USA and Europe and recorded with until its demise in 1989. The late 1980s also saw Mark composing and touring his own music, performing three times at Ronnie Scott's in London, and at festivals in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. Around this same time Mark was seen touring with Annie Whitehead and Roger Dean's Lysis.
In 2016 Mark was awarded Jazz FM Instrumentalist of the year at the Jazz FM Awards and was nominated for the British Composer Awards for his composition ’With One Voice’.
Performing tonight with Simon Purcell piano; Amy Baldwin bass; Adam Osmianski drums.
This is a Jazz for the Community event so admission is donation. Do pop by to support jazz and musicians post-COVID.
You might to read the article by Seb Scotney in “London Jazz News”.
## Jazz Mondays @ The Fox, 413 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 4JD
## Famed JAZZ ARTISTS with international pedigree performing in the community…
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