Amaziah Davis

Amaziah Davis is primarily a TROMBONE PLAYER and also BASS GUITARIST. He is a singer, and helicon-ist (Eastern European version of a sousaphone which is an American version of a tuba…er…almost [see photos]), whose musical influences range from Puccini to P-Funk and Bob Marley to Musicals. “I started my musical career at the relatively late age of 22 playing bass in a dodgy blues band. After quickly ditching careers in the police force, fire brigade and as a kiss-o-gram, truck driver, dustbin man and nightclub doorman (to name just a few…), my interest in playing music full time grew when I moved to Brighton and studied Jazz at Chichester College. It was during this course in 1994 that I took up playing trombone and performed my first gig on the instrument after only six weeks. Having successfully completed that course I moved North and studied at the City of Leeds College of Music where I learned to dislike jazz but still gained a BA(hons) in Jazz studies. Whilst in Leeds I was introduced to P-Funk, the music of George Clinton and the 70’s super heavy US funk band Parliament which has become one of the greatest influences in the music that I write." Amaziah is also an actor on the side too and has performed, (in a very low key manner), in Jesus Christ Superstar (Caiaphas), Hair (Hud), Blues In The Night (The Man) to name a few musicals with a couple of feature films and sitcoms in there somewhere as well.