Mark Kavuma

BANDLEADER•COMPOSER•TRUMPETER•TEACHER

The MArk kavuma quartet

NOAH STONEMAN - PIANO                 LUCA CARUSO - DRUMS                       MICHAEL SHRIMPLING - BASS                             MARK KAVUMA - TRUMPET

ARTIE ZAITZ - GUITAR JACK THOMAS - DRUMS JACK GARSIDE - BASS MARK KAVUMA - TRUMPET

ZAITZ & KAVUMA - BACK TO BACK

The unique collaboration has been bubbling for many years, fully bursting into life during the pandemic when due to restrictions Kavuma and Zaitz found themselves practicing literally back to back. This extremely rare configuration (1961 Hammond C-3 Organ against 1971 Wurlitzer 200A Electric Piano, or a Steinway Grand Piano delivers sonic delights and a 'bomb' within the traditions of century-old jazz music.

KINETIKA BLOCO

The Kinetika Bloco is a performance group with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dynamic dancers all in costume creating a "unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London edge" (BBC Radio2). Mar…

The Kinetika Bloco is a performance group with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dynamic dancers all in costume creating a "unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London edge" (BBC Radio2). Mark Is one of the professional tutors, and is involved in composing and arranging for the ensemble as well as co - leading the brass section alongside Claude Deppa, Andy Grappy and Ruben Fox.