Moses Boyd

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Moses Boyd is a British jazz drummer, composer, producer, bandleader and radio presenter, born on 30 April 1991. He grew up in Catford in south London, the child of a Dominican father and a Jamaican mother. He began drumming at Sedgehill School. In 2016 he graduated from Trinity Laban, where he also took part in the educational jazz programme Tomorrow's Warriors.

Music and breakthrough

In 2014 he formed the duo Binker & Moses with the saxophonist Binker Golding. They made three records in a row, won prizes including a MOBO Award, and released their fourth album, Feeding the Machine, in 2022. With his band Moses Boyd Exodus, in which the tuba player Theon Cross, the guitarist Artie Zaitz and the trombonist Nathaniel Cross, among others, play, he released several mixtapes in the mid-2010s. On his own label Exodus Records the EP Absolute Zero appeared in 2017, followed in 2018 by Displaced Diaspora.

Influence

His debut album Dark Matter, from 2020, was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Boyd has worked with, among others, Beyoncé, Little Simz, Lonnie Liston Smith, Sons of Kemet, Floating Points and Four Tet. In 2019 he presented a programme on BBC Radio 1Xtra. He belongs to the new generation of London jazz musicians who linked jazz with electronic music and contemporary urban music.

Listening

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  Stranger Than Fiction · Moses Boyd, 2020
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  BTB · Moses Boyd, 2020
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  Y.O.Y.O · Moses Boyd, 2020

Discography

Studio albums

• 2020Dark Matter
• 2020Escape the Flames
• 2025Opening Time
• 2026Songs For Sinners

Other work

• 2017Absolute Zero
• 2018Displaced Diaspora

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map

Mentioned in other articles

• New London jazz GenreThe saxophonist Nubya Garcia, the tuba player Theon Cross, the drummer Moses Boyd and the band Ezra Collective formed the core of the scene.

See also

• New London jazz
• Nu jazz