Jazz Articles about Daniel Casimir

About Daniel Casimir

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Kevin Haynes / Grupo Elegua: Inner Outer Alignment Vol. 1

Read "Inner Outer Alignment Vol. 1" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 11, 2026

Alto saxophonist, percussionist, composer and African folklore singer Kevin Haynes first came to prominence playing drums with the Jazz Warriors Big Band in the 1980s. An ordained Yoruba Ifá priest, his artistic development has continued to be shaped by the spiritual percussion traditions of West Africa, alongside his mastery of the alto saxophone, a proficiency that has often seen him referred to as the “African Charlie Parker." His Grupo Elegua project is a heady fusion of hard-bop jazz, ...

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Daniel Casimir: Balance

by Carl Medsker
August 10, 2025

The dynamic London underground jazz scene has produced a stellar roster of innovative musicians over the last decade or so. Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Binker Golding, Moses Boyd and Theon Cross, to name a few, meld bebop, hip hop, grime, reggae, dub, calypso, afrobeat and classical musics into fresh, novel hybrids. Bassist and rising star Daniel Casimir's milieu for his last two albums, Boxed In (Jazz Re:freshed, 2021) and Balance (Jazz Re:freshed, 2024), was a jazz orchestra plus strings. He ...

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Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy

Read "Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 31, 2022

Acknowledged as one of the top UK saxophonists since the 2010s, Binker Golding established himself as half of the duo Binker and Moses with drummer Moses Boyd. On the same Gearbox Records label, Golding issued his first solo album Abstractions of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers in 2019. A departure from the uninhibited free improvisation and lashing dance rhythms that Binker and Moses are known for, Abstractions... featured a less raw, sophisticated hard bop vibe. Golding's latest, Dream Like a ...

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Daniel Casimir: Boxed In

by Chris May
October 22, 2021

Because of the supporting-cast role generally assigned to his instrument, bassist Daniel Casimir is not a household name in British jazz. But among musicians on the alternative London scene, and aficionados of it, he is highly regarded. Casimir is, for example, the bassist on all of tenor saxophonist Nubya Garcia's recorded output to date. Garcia returns the favour by being one of the two featured soloists on Boxed In, Casimir's ambitiously conceived, out of left field--and stonkingly good--debut under his ...

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Nubya Garcia: Source

by Ian Patterson
September 17, 2020

London-born and raised she may be, but saxophonist-composer Nubya Garcia's music is pan-global in outlook, reflecting her Guyanese/Trinidadian heritage on one hand, and an openness to music in general, on the other. It should come as no surprise that her full-length debut is laced with Afro-Caribbean and South American rhythms, for Source is a personal proclamation--a musical passport of sorts. Equally, a streak of urban chic—marked by broken beats and dub atmospherics—colors these ten tracks. Yet for all its musical ...

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Nubya Garcia: Source

by Chris May
August 22, 2020

Tenor saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia's first full-length album has been a long time coming—but the wait has been worth it. Source is a cracker and more than fulfills the weighty expectations that built up in anticipation of its arrival. It was back in 2017 that Garcia debuted with the EP Nubya's 5ive (Jazz Re:freshed) and since then she has been a leading light of the new London jazz scene. One of a triumvirate of tenor stars—the other ...