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Daniel Casimir: Balance

By Carl Medsker
August 10, 2025
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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 paints with the full complement of instruments, yielding thoroughly contemporary harmonic, melodic and rhythmic results. Here's "Balance" from the same-titled album. Brilliant.

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