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London-based, Jazz Improviser, band-leader, composer and trumpeter Davy tends towards the modal approach to jazz and improvised music, citing influences such as: Hannibal Lokumbe, Lester Bowie, Don Cherry, Tomas Stanko, Nils Molvaer Pederson, John Hassel, and others.
He is best known for international touring and recording with Lamb, Adam F, Two Banks of Four, as well as His own former groups, KDQ and Dsemble.
Davy has worked in JAZZ across musical genres in France, Switzerland and Germany, artists such as;
Pibo Marquez(Venezuela), Sangoma Everett(USA), Shiek Tidiane Sek(Mali), Kresimir Debski(Warsawa, Poland), Roman Rahout(Poznan, Poland) Paul Shigihara(Koln, Germany), and Doudou Gouirand(France) to name but a few.
Davy’s trumpet has featured on albums by Japanese producer Sugizo (Truth?, and Grand Cross), US vocalist Melissa Kaplan, The Crass Collective, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Ashley and Jackson, Chapter and the Verse, Adamski, Unabombers, and The Aliens.
Davy has performed on the European music festival curcuit, including: the Montreaux, and North Sea Jazz Festivals, as well as New York’s revered Summerstage.
The current Kevin Davy group, is a six-piece lineup. With its roots firmly in Jazz. Davy has tended to use small ensemble for as a vehicle for his composition and musical direction.
The compositions are originals by Davy. The music is underpinned by an urban edge, employing grooves from Nu Jazz, and harmony derived from blues, gospel, and the near east. This is reflected in the trumpet tonality, and the textures brought to the music, by instruments such as: tablas, congos, and african-rooted scat vocals
Influences
I have been influenced mostly by american trumpeters, all the famous names. from Satchmo, Dizzy, Roy Eldrige, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard, Then the freer, Donald Ayler, Hannibal, Rasul Siddik etc. I was an still am, blown away on listening to these players.
Lately I tend towards the modal approach to jazz and improvised music, citing influences such as: Hannibal Lokumbe, Lester Bowie, Don Cherry, Tomas Stanko, Nils Molvaer Pederson, John Hassel, and many others.
PERSONALLY I LIKE A BROAD-CROSS SECTION OF CREATIVE WORK:
Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, Remembering Shakti, Peter Tosh, The Toots and the Maytals, The Mighty Diamonds, Penderecki, Duke Ellington, Bobby Hathaway, J S Bach, Beethoven, Daimanda Galas, DJ Fabio, The Who, Stanley Clarke, Joe Zawinul, Hannibal Lokumbe, Joe Bowie and Defunkt, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, James Brown, Ray Charles, Mahalia Jackson, Tremain Hawkins, Boys to Men, James McMillan (Scottish composer), Peter Maxwell Davis, Gnawa music, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Don Cherry, Woody Shaw, Booker Little, Lee Morgan, Muddy Waters, Son House, Albert Collins, Johnny Lee Hooker, Leadbelly, Bessy Smith, Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Thelonius Monk, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Herb Alpert, Quincy Jones, Roberta Flack, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklyn, Oletta Adams, Jennifer Holiday, Patty Labelle, Barbara Streisand, Barry Manilow, Nat King Cole, George Shearing, Amy Winehouse, Bekhi Mseleku, Abdullah Ibrahim, Idris Hotep Galeta, Louis Winsberg, Doudou Gouirand, Sangoma Everett, Ronnie Lynne Patterson, Paul Shigihara, Sugizo, Hideaki Takahashi, Syuri, Finley Quaye, Basil Clarke, Aniff Akinola, Colin Thorpe, Shinri T Scott, Eve Pitts, Terry Short, Bernard Nolan, Fred Straw, Wynton Marsalis, Maynard Ferguson, Jon Faddis, Cat Anderson, Jamaladeen Tacouma, Will Calhoun, Living Colour, Doug Wimbush, Terence Blanchard, Jeremy Pelt, Take Six album with Marcus Miller producing it, Fantasia on a theme, by Thomas Tallis, the vaughan williams arrangement, Bach cello concertos, Bach Brandenburg concertos, Delius, Elgar's Enigma Variations especially Nimrod, Roy Eldrige, Lester Young, Bix Beiderbecke, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, Claudio Roditti, Wallace Roney, Roy Hargroves, Roland Alphonso, Lee Scratch Perry, and many many more. . . . .:
Sounds Like
Contemporary and open music. Influenced by M-base, free jazz, ala Ornette Coleman, also electronics and experimental improvisers, drum 'n' bass, U.K. contemporary music scenes and beats, open modal playing and swing. etc etc. I like people who have tried from the outset to make their own style, and have their own individual mark on their work. This is what we strive to do.
Personally I aim to learn from and absorb elements of styles, and the spirit in which these have been passed on to us. I am not so much into so much rote transcriptions of solos and styles from the masters. I guess we are all trying in the end to sound like ourselves and to share our humanity.
Jazz Improviser,
band-leader, composer and trumpeter.
Kevin Davy, originates from the Manchester Jazz scene.
He has spent the last ten years based in London. He is best known for international touring and recording with Lamb, Adam F, and other major recording artists.
Davy has worked with major jazz names in France, Switzerland and Germany etc,
including; Pibo Marquez(Venezuela),
Sangoma Everett(USA), Shiek Tidiane Sek(Mali), ..Kresimir Debski (Warsawa, Poland), Roman Rahout (Poznan, Poland)
Paul Shigihara (Koln, Germany), and Doudou Gouirand (France).
Also his trumpet playing has featured on two albums by Japanese producer Sugizo (Truth?, and Grand Cross) and an album entitled Mercury, US vocalist Melissa Kaplan.
Kevin Davy has also featured on albums by the Crass Collective and Penny Rimbaud, Sigue Sigue Sputnik. He has also recorded with Ashley and Jackson, Chapter and the Verse, and Adamski. Davy has performed extensively on the European music festival circuit, most notably: the Montreaux, and North Sea Jazz Festivals, as well as New York's revered Summerstage.
KDQ and D'semble lineups
Davy has led and directed his own groups, D'semble and KDQ over the last fifteen years, which has featured many musicians on recording and live work, such as Tomas Dyani, Julie Dexter, Robert Mitchell, Mikey Wilson, Sylvan Richardson, Trevor Watkiss, Tony Remy, Mike Gorman, Luke Smith, Luke Flowers et al.
In 1992, Kevin Davy was voted Jazz Musician of the Year by Manchester
BBC GMR Radio's People
programme.
TV Appearances, and TV work
Kevin Davy has had numerous T.V. appearances in the U.K. and continental
Europe, including; TransWorld TV (with Lemn Sissay and Secret Society),MTV Europe (with Lamb), and Top Of The Pops (with Phil Collins, and The Tamperer). Channel 4, The Word (with Elevator Suite). Davy's trumpet has been featured on programmes by Granada TV.
(with the music of Secret Society, short film, Lush Life, and The Judie Finnigan Debate).
Work on Musical Direction for Drama / Dramatic setting
In Drama, has worked with Directors; Denise Wong, Dr. Alda Terraciano, and Su Andi OBE.
CURRENT PROJECTS
KDQ and D'semble
Collectives, featuring Renu Hossain (Tabla and assorted Percussion)
The Original African
Indianz, and Anthony Hatcher Johnson,
Shinri T Scott, and The
Mediator.
Ritzy, Brixton Fringe Jazz Collective.
Active member of BAA, Black Arts Alliance, Manchester...
Member of LMC, London Musicians Collective.
Davy's group has undergone various line-ups in London and Manchester since
1990.
Mainstays of the group
include:
Myke Wilson (Drums /
Manchester)
Jeri Lindo (Guitar /
Manchester)
Clive Hunte (Perc. and Moog Synth/ Manchester)
Jon Thorne (Double Bass and former Lamb colleague)
Dave Tompkins (Double Bass / former member of D'semble / Manchester)
Adrian Lawrence (Drums, London, Canada)
Jackson Baird (Piano, and keys)
Karim El Laboudi (Piano, keys)
Alex Douglas (Piano, keys, Manchester-London)
Renu Hossain (Tablas, and other percussion-London)
Dom Pipkin (Piano and keyboards-London)
Darlington Joseph (Bass-Lagos and London)
Jo Hendrix Ndelo (Vox-London, France and Congo)
For extensive discography and more information, check out Kevin G Davy's homepage
Hi there! Thanks for adding us, unfortunately Simon and Stu who you would've spoken to on the train don't tend to come on here, but i'm sure they'll be pleased to know you remembered them! Thanks a lot for your support x
Kevin Davy: we love your fine music, playing, and overlaping, we share your feel and love your brainwave, Great Artist and rare Great Spirit, thank you with heart
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Ciao,Kevin Thank you for the add and the friendship. you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot, compliments ..really. you are one of my prefeitis, I feel great admiration for you, I hope to listen soon to you, in italy .. all the best.. from italy..and good life.. every day neal
