Kevin Davy

Kevin G. Davy (born 29 October 1961, Nottingham, UK) is a British jazz trumpeter/flugelhorn player, composer, arranger and bandleader.

While enrolled there he attended the weekly jazz improvisation workshops organized by Colin Stansfield in the nearby All Saints College, subsumed into the campus of Manchester Metropolitan University.

In 1994, after being recommended by the late Colin Goddard, former studio owner of Moonrakers Studio, Manchester, Davy relocated to London, where he took up the post of trumpet chair and actor/musician at the Donmar Warehouse on their production of the Brecht/Weil, work;The Threepenny Opera directed by Phyllida Lloyd, and under the musical direction of Gary Yershon, and Kate Edgar.

Following work on his album, The Thoth Project, Davy resumed freelancing on trumpet in London with a number of artists, including Finley Quaye, Lamb, and more recently, Cymande.

He has also periodically held revivals of "Kevin Davy's Monster Jam", at various London venues, combining musicians and vocalists from around the U.K.