Etuk Ubong
Last Show: Saturday 28 th July 2018
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Etuk Ubong is an in-demand trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Born in 1992 in Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria, he was raised in Lagos, and started his tutelage under top Nigerian trumpeters Etop Adolphors and Victor Ademofe. When he was just 16, renowned highlife musician Victor Olaiya invited him to join his band and he played alongside the master for about four years. He has also performed with Pat Harbison, Ansyn Banks, Nduduzo Makhathini and in the ‘On Mass’ project, headed by Jamie Cullum, as part of the London Jazz Festival 2015.