Introduction
Mubba (born Humphrey Mbaruku) is a jazz bassist, songwriter and composer from Tanzania living in Finland.
Since his beginnings, both traditional jazz and African music form an important part of his life. He has been inspired by artists such as Richard Bona, Ettiene Mbape, Marcus Miller, Tatu Nane, Jimmy DluDlu, Jonathan Butler, Hugh Masekela among other greats. Due to these varieties and legendary experience and exposure, his music connects with audiences from different cultures around Africa and other corners of the world as well.
His music fuses African (Tanzania) rhythm and melodies with the spontanious freedom of jazz improvisation, resistance and movement that ignites the body and awakens the mind. His has one album called Time which highlights the music that he is doing, it is in all digital platforms.
He has a band called The Afrotan which comprises musicians from TANZANIA, CHILE, ITALY, and FINLAND.
Mubba has done an African tour in 2025 which was sponsored by Goethe institute on African countries like Ivory Coast, Kenya, Angola, Congo and etc. He has played on Sauti za Busara 2024 in Zanzibar, bc international jazz festival in Kenya 2024 and Evergreen Jazz festival in Tanzania.
He is now working on his second album called Echos from the west.
Humphrey Mubba(Tanzania) - Bass and Voice
Joni Vierre (Finland) - Guitar and Mandoline
Constanza Garcia( Chile,Italy) - flutes and Saxaphone
Alessandro D'Anna(Italy ) - Drums and percussion
Baraka Issabu(Tanzania) - piano and Keys
Technical Information
we have a repertoire of 2 hours, so it is possible to perform in that duration.
the band uses mostly equipments which require amplification