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Will Cleasby

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 ...

Back To Back

By Mark Kavuma

Label: Banger Factory Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Evidence; Cedar Tree; Round Midnight; Lockdown Blues; Mia's Waltz; Church.

Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory At Milton Court Concert Hall

by Chris May
November 23, 2022

Mark KavumaMilton Court Concert HallLondonNovember 18, 2022 Fittingly for one of the closing events of the 2022 London Jazz Festival, trumpeter Mark Kavuma's performance at the Barbican Centre's associate concert hall, a few hundred yards down the road from the main venue, was on an epic scale. Kavuma appeared with ...

Dial H for Hitchcock

by Peter Jones
November 5, 2022

When we meet in a South London pub, tenor saxophonist Alex Hitchcock mentions that he has a rehearsal the next day with the bassist Jasper Høiby for which he needs to learn about an hour of new music. It's for one gig, which is at the weekend. “So it's in at the deep end—quite exciting." If ...

Things Happened Here

By Giacomo Smith

Label: Ever / !K7
Released: 2020
Track listing: Riders; Dreamlane; Two Dancers; Sambre Et Meuse; Alcazar; Temple Of Bel; Sunnyland; Things Happened Here; Judgement.

Nice Jazz Festival 2019

by Martin McFie
July 24, 2019

Nice Jazz Festival Théâtre de Verdure Nice, France July 16-20, 2019 Sebastien Vidal, the artistic director of the Nice Jazz Festival, expressed his goals for 2019 as diversity and inclusivity. The Festival takes place in the center of the city, near a tram line station. They welcomed forty ...