Jazz Articles about Moses Boyd

About Moses Boyd

Album Review

Binker and Moses: Escape The Flames

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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.

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Tori Handsley: As We Stand

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by Chris May
November 10, 2020

Harpist Tori Handsley is a prominent sideperson on London's alternative jazz scene.She has worked with reed player Shabaka Hutchings, tenor saxophonist Nubya Garcia and keyboard player Nikki Yeoh among other luminaries. She is perhaps best known for her contributions to two albums by Binker and Moses, the ferocious semi-free duo led by tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd. Handsley is a featured guest on the group's landmark albums Journey To The Mountain Of Forever (Gearbox, 2017) and Alive ...

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Moses Boyd: Dark Matter

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by Chris May
March 3, 2020

As half of the ferocious semi-free duo Binker and Moses with tenor saxophonist Binker Golding, and with a string of guesting and producing credits of biblical proportions, drummer Moses Boyd is among the most prominent of the cohort of London rebels who are reinvigorating British jazz. He emerged, alongside Golding, in singer Zara McFarlane's band in 2015, going on to produce her sublime jazz / reggae set Arise (Brownswood, 2017). He has released three albums with Golding—Dem Ones (2015), Journey ...

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Moses Boyd: Displaced Diaspora

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by Chris May
October 19, 2018

The pre-release anticipation surrounding drummer and producer Moses Boyd's Displaced Diaspora was a sure sign that the cultural revolution that has reset London's jazz world over the last three years has bedded itself firmly into the architecture. Not because the album is a newly recorded set--but because it is not. The disc is a selection of tracks Boyd played on and produced during 2015. When an audience can be as excited as Boyd's is, at the time of writing in ...