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The Banger Factory

Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory: Magnum Opus

by Neil Duggan
December 2, 2024

Originally set up in 2015, The Banger Factory is a 20-plus collective led by composer and trumpeter Mark Kavuma. It is also the name of his record label. Both act as a showcase for some of the most gifted jazz talent the UK has to offer. Kavuma has a focus on nurturing young talent and providing ...

Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory: Arashi No Oto

by Chris May
September 4, 2021

London-based trumpeter and composer Mark Kavuma was last seen in this parish in July 2019. At the start of that month, Kavuma released his second album with his nonet, The Banger Factory. A couple of weeks later, he led a quintet on the floor of the Barbican Art Gallery, performing Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1956) ...

The Banger Factory

By Mark Kavuma

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dear KD; The Banger Factory; Mussinghi; Lullaby To A Fading Star; Big Willie; The Songbird; Mrakpor.

Mark Kavuma: The Banger Factory

by Roger Farbey
August 1, 2019

The Banger Factory, the follow-up to Mark Kavuma's debut album Kavuma (Ubuntu, 2018) is no less impressive than its predecessor. The title derives from the name of the band that Kavuma leads, which plays regularly at the Prince of Wales (aka POW) venue in Brixton, London. Deschanel Gordon's pensive piano introduction, evoking shades of McCoy Tyner ...

Mark Kavuma: The Banger Factory

by Chris May
July 25, 2019

An associate of the Tomorrow's Warriors and Kinetika Bloco community projects through whose ranks have passed practically all the leading musicians in London's woke-jazz world, trumpeter Mark Kavuma stands a little apart from many of his peers. While the new London scene is characterized by hefty infusions of modern Caribbean and African music and London club ...