Jazz Articles about Moses Boyd

About Moses Boyd

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It was hardly a new sentiment: "Jazz is dead," proclaimed trumpet-player Theo Croker at a recent London gig. What he meant, of course, was that the word jazz is dead, a turn-off for the general public, and a millstone around the necks of those who try to make a living out of playing it. Why can't we just call it music? he wanted to know.This new album by British singer-composer-saxophonist-multi-instrumentalist Quinn Oulton asks the same question implicitly. In ...

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Binker & Moses: Feeding The Machine

Read "Feeding The Machine" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 11, 2022

After saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd released their debut album, Dem Ones (Gearbox Records, 2015), the duo earned the U.K. Jazz FM Awards' “Best Jazz Act" trophy (2016). Unquestionably the soul of their own machine, Binker and Moses have rarely functioned simply as a duo. By their second Gearbox release, Journey To The Mountain Of Forever (2017), they had added a guest roster including Evan Parker, Sarathy Korwar (Ill Considered), harp, trumpet, and additional percussionist. The two subsequent ...

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Binker & Moses: Feeding The Machine

Read "Feeding The Machine" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 4, 2022

Many of us who are fully paid-up intravenous-feed junkies for Binker and Moses would be happy if the semi-free London duo stuck to their well-honed paradigm of acoustic visceralism until The Time Of The Last Persecution. Tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd, however, have been restless for a while, wanting to reconfigure their music. With Feeding The Machine they have done so, and radically, making electronicist Max Luthert an equal partner in this, their fifth full-length album.

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Binker & Moses: Feed Infinite

Read "Feed Infinite" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
December 17, 2021

For a nutritious seasonal feast, forget the Holiday dreck that swamps the jazz world every December and instead get your gnashers round London-based semi-free duo Binker & Moses' single “Feed Infinite." Having released four outstanding albums (two studio and two live) since 2015, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd have been looking to tweak their paradigm and “Feed Infinite" maps out a possible new trajectory. The track retains the duo's raw, romping, in-the-moment, acoustic visceralism ...

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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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Tori Handsley: As We Stand

Read "As We Stand" reviewed by Claudio Bonomi

by Claudio Bonomi
June 21, 2021

Tori Handsley ha il look, la grinta e il piglio degni di una musicista di punk inglese della fine degli anni Settanta. Almeno, così sembrerebbe dal bel ritratto in bianco e nero che appare in copertina realizzato da Pete Williams. Ma la sua musica non ha niente a che vedere con i Sex Pistols o con i The Damned: virtuosa dell'arpa elettrica e valente pianista ha confezionato un album che rilancia il cosiddetto British Jazz ai vertici di una ritrovata ...

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Binker and Moses: Escape The Flames

Read "Escape The Flames" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 27, 2020

The audio equivalent of a novel by Neil Gaiman, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd's semi-free duo Binker and Moses is still, five years after its launch in 2015, the most fantastical sound to come out of London's alternative jazz scene. Packed with as many thrills and spills and steam-punk magick spells as, say, Gaiman's London-set Neverwhere, Binker and Moses is a similarly unputdownable page-turner--but unlike Gaiman, Golding and Boyd are prepared, thank God, to release sequels.