Moses Boyd

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Moses Boyd (2019)

Moses Boyd (born April 30, 1991 in London ) is a British fusion musician ( drums , composition ).

Live and act

Boyd began playing drums at the age of 13, drawing inspiration from both jazz greats like Miles Davis and the grime albums by Dizzee Rascal . He soon received lessons from jazz drummer Bobby Dodsworth and took part in workshops from Leon Michener. While studying at Trinity Laban College , Boyd became a member of Gary Crosby's Tomorrow’s Warriors ; There he met the saxophonist Binker Golding , with whom he had worked since 2014.

He and Golding recorded their debut Dem Ones live as part of the duo Binker & Moses in 2015 and won the British MOBO Award for “best jazz act”. That same year, Boyd released his first release as the band leader of Exodus , the EP Footsteps of Our Fathers . In the following years he continued to perform with Exodus and with Binker & Moses and as a solo act under the name Solo Exodus , combining elements of jazz, grime and electronica .

After releasing the Exodus single "Rye Lane Shuffle" and the four-song Exodus EP Time and Space 2016, Boyd received the John Peel Play More Jazz Award at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards . Binker & Moses released several albums as a duo and with guests such as Evan Parker , Byron Wallen , Tori Handsley, Sarathy Korwar and Yussef Dayes, including the award-winning Journey to the Mountain of Forever (2017) and Alive in the East (2018). Meanwhile, Boyd has worked with a wide variety of acts, from electronic artists like Four Tet and Floating Points to jazz musicians like Lonnie Liston Smith , Zara McFarlane , Theon Cross and Daniel Casimir . At the beginning of 2018 the sampler We Out Here was released with Boyd and other personalities from London's young jazz scene, including Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings . That year he released the album Displaced Diaspora with Exodus , in which guests such as Kevin Haynes' Grupo Elegua and Terri Walker were involved. In 2020 his album Dark Matter followed with Exodus, with guests such as Gary Crosby, Nubya Garcia, Joe Armon-Jones or Poppy Ajudha, on which he also used samples of rhythms that he brought back from a trip to South Africa.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review (Jazzthing)
  2. ↑ Meeting and Stream (MusikExpress) , Review (RadioEins)
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British fusion musician (drums, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH London