Dave Okumu

b. 12 Oct 1976, Vienna, Austria. The boy of exiled Kenyan peacefulness campaigner Teacher Washington Okumu, David and his family members relocated to the united kingdom when he was a decade old. He previously begun taking a pastime in music, initial attempting to play trumpet but rather took up your guitar. Although he didn’t believe he could play jazz, he went to a college where John Parricelli was a going to teacher and started getting into the genre. He fulfilled drummer Tom Skinner and bass participant Tom Herbert, both of whom had been to be close musical companions and collaborators into the future. After learning French and politics at Edinburgh School, Okumu came back to London where he became a member of Tomorrow’s Warriors. He previously been composing music and was inspired to execute his ‘Thieves Without Loot’ on the London Jazz Celebration. For this time, Okumu was became a member of by Skinner and Herbert in addition to keyboard participant Nick Ramm and saxophonist Jason Yarde. He afterwards fulfilled and used Scandinavian modern jazz players drummer Benita Haastrup and bass participant Anders Jormin. Okumu continues to be deeply associated with several bands, occasionally as head or co-leader; included in this are F-IRE Collective, Jade Fox, a music group influenced by Mls Davis’ fusion period, and Feet Fooler, a 12-piece music group conceived by Skinner and in addition inspired by areas of Davis’ function. Amongst others with whom Okumu offers performed are Colin Cities’ Face mask Orchestra, John Taylor, Jean Toussaint, and performers Eska Mtungwazi, Terri Walker and Norma Winstone. He in addition has caused Taylor and Winstone’s boy, drummer Leo Taylor. An daring and forward-thinking musician, through the early 00s Okumu was staking a state to becoming one of the most promising of the brand new era of jazz music artists.