KOKORICO
Jazz / World / Acoustic
Manchester, United Kingdom
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About
Kokorico is the brainchild of Serge Tebu, pianist and composer, together with Martin Milner, guitarist and community musician. Additional founder members are Pat Mackela (drums) and Zac Sargent (percussion). The band came together in Manchester UK in 2007.
Serge Tebu, artistic lead, piano, melodica and bass.
He got a sax as a gift from his dad when he was 4 but I was using it like a stick to chasing chickens on the street! He started drumming the furniture at age 8. At age 16 he started classical piano and then moved to jazz after a year. In 1996, he met ZEBSON PINDY who became his music teacher, teaching jazz harmony, improvisation, arrangement, and composition. He studied with him 6 days a week at least 10 hours a day for 3 years. in Douala (Cameroon). In 2000 he was the first manager of the ZEBSON JAZZ ACADEMY as well as teacher. (The academy is still running.) In 2003, he set up and ran a music studio in Douala. He composed and arranged for artists from all over central Africa.
Now living in Manchester and playing piano and bass guitar. He has composed music for Laurent Camara, a radio presenter at Wolverhampton community radio, as a theme tune for the programme "Out of Africa". He also wrote and produced music for UK African artists for their next album.
In April 2007 he started training as a community artist at CAN and met Martin Milner. He set up KOKORICO playing music with a fusion of British and African feels. Through CAN, he was asked to join the BEATING WING ORCHESTRA playing alongside 12 other international musicians directed by acclaimed Palestinian composer Reem Kelani. They performed at the very first Manchester International Festival in June 2007."My vision with Kokoriko is to bring together musicians with jazz experience for a new approach mixing African and other rhythms on jazz harmony."
Martin Milner (composer, guitar, flute and percussion) has studied and played with a range of musicians including tenor legend Bobby Wellins, Julian Nicholas, Ian Millican, Paul Aguilera, Gary Crosby, and worked for four years with acclaimed arranger/composer Stephen Wrigley. Between 1999 and 2001 he worked with Yvonne Shelton, Jerome Stokes, Stuart Whitehead and Helena Price as Cuchillo. He has been music director/composer for six theatre productions, including The Lowry's sell-out production of 'Love on the Dole' (2004). He has worked as a teacher including two years as a visiting lecturer at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He is also committed and busy community musician, employing music as a pathway for education, personal growth and development.
Lugemba Mackela,known as Pat Mackela from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He Plays both the drum kit and hand drums plus percussions.With his drumming skill he has been chosen as the main drummer in the Beatting Wing orchestra to perform in the Manchester International festival with Reem Kelani.
Pat is among those who believe that music brings peace of mind no one can break it because music indeed is a power, because if you don't catch the rhythm you are going to like the message and both make a powerful connection.
A part of his music skill Pat is also a radio presenter in one of the greatest Manchester community radio All FM 96.9 with his show named Pellegrini Show every Monday detween 11am & 12 noon)
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