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Andrew Neil Hayes: Tenor Badness

by Chris May
January 9, 2023

Something big and wild and loud was stirring on the alternative British jazz scene around 2015, 2016. In London, high-voltage tenor sax and drums duo Binker and Moses made their debut album, as did jazz-rock power trio The Comet Is Coming. Meanwhile, in the west of the country, in the port city of Bristol, tenor saxophonist Andrew Neil Hayes and drummer Don Johnson were lighting the fuse of Run Logan Run, which inhabits a similar space. Run ...

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Run Logan Run: Nature Will Take Care Of You

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by Chris May
November 11, 2022

Although they often remain below the radar of the international jazz audience, British cities other than London support thriving jazz and beyond-jazz scenes, and the port of Bristol has a particularly fertile one. Among its luminaries are Run Logan Run, a duo comprising saxophonist Andrew Neil Hayes and drummer Matt Brown. Nature Will Take Care Of You, the group's fourth album, is the follow-up to 2021's For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers (Worm Discs) and it is ...

Album Review

Run Logan Run: For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers

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by Chris May
October 5, 2021

Tenor saxophone and drums albums have been at the heart of London's alternative jazz scene since its first stirrings around 2015. That year, saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd, then members of singer Zara McFarlane's backing band, started tossing riffs and beats back and forth to each other during pre-gig soundchecks. In short order, the duo formed the semi-free Binker and Moses, and have since released four albums which are among the crown jewels of the ...