Dec 8, 2021 11:26 AM
Jazz Boom in the UK!
Midway through the 2010s, the excitement became palpable. A new sound was developing and it wasn’t just the jazz…
The spread from DownBeat’s October 2021 issue, clockwise: Yazz Ahmed, Steam Down, Nubya Garcia, Emma-Jean Thackray, Moses Boyd and Alexis Blondel.
Dec 8, 2021 11:26 AM
Midway through the 2010s, the excitement became palpable. A new sound was developing and it wasn’t just the jazz…
Moses Boyd, who’s set to release his debut Dark Matter, says he likes “being a bit uncomfortable.”
Jan 24, 2020 10:11 AM
Drummer Moses Boyd has served as London’s rhythmic instigator since introducing himself with the Footsteps Of Our…
Since the 1980s, London-based DJ and record label founder Gilles Peterson has been a force in music. The first installment of his We Our Here festival is set to run Aug. 15–18 in Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Jun 11, 2019 4:31 PM
Being a curator has become a defining ethos for the 21st century. With digital platforms bombarding us with choice, a…
Theon Cross’ instrument enables the bandleader to consider his attack from a unique vantage point, the tuba’s relative obsolescence in contemporary music alleviating him from the burden of comparison.
Mar 25, 2019 9:51 AM
Even before releasing a full-length recording under his own name, Theon Cross had become a central figure of the…
Emma-Jean Thackray began her life as a musician in a Yorkshire brass band.
Aug 16, 2018 4:08 PM
Emma-Jean Thackray built her new record, Ley Lines, in the upstairs studio of her cozy and colorful South London flat,…
Starting Today, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones’ debut on Brownswood Recordings, is out May 4.
Aug 16, 2018 4:12 PM
Keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones is sitting on a sofa in the South London house he shares with four other musicians.…
Drummer Moses Boyd, who gigs as Binker & Moses along with tenor saxophonist Binker Golding, recently played the Brussels Jazz Festival.
Aug 16, 2018 4:07 PM
There were three dominant artist groupings during the Brussels Jazz Festival. Naturally, there was a considerable…
Drummer Moses Boyd (left), saxophonist Nubya Garcia and tuba player Theon Cross contributed to the forthcoming album We Out Here, on Brownswood Recordings.
Aug 16, 2018 4:07 PM
Soon after Jazz Re:Freshed’s fifth annual Jazz Re:Fest concluded in August at London’s Royal Festival Hall…
