I’m still there now and it’s really served me well. I joined Tomorrow’s Warriors through the big band, which is at the Southbank Centre as well, where they teach you about jazz improvisation, big band playing and from there I met so many people. So it was mainly from Kinetika Bloco that I learnt about jazz and that developed further on when I started doing Tomorrow’s Warriors, when I was about 16.
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I’d ask them ‘how do you learn to improvise?’ and they would tell me how to transcribe, what to check out and showing me things to practice. I just heard them playing and they told me how to get into jazz. Within Kinetika Bloco there’s a lot of people from the jazz scene that are older than me and I looked up to them, people like Mark Kavuma. It’s a few weeks in August, an intensive thing where you learn tunes and go out on parade and do things like Notting Hill Carnival. It was basically like a carnival band or a London samba band. When I was 14 I started going to a summer school called Kinetika Bloco, which has a bunch of great people like Sheila Maurice-Grey and Theon Cross.
From then on I just gravitated towards that instrument more, and it’s continued with me until now.
I continued that and, at the age of ten, went to the Southbank Centre to watch Hugh Masekela and that was my first time seeing the trumpet/flugelhorn in that kind of context. How did you first get into playing music?įrom a very young age my mum just got me involved in a local music school and I started playing piano and recorder around the age of 6.
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