STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
‘It feels like a more honest reflection of Britain’
Drummer MOSES BOYD tells Chris Searle why the album Alive in the East? is an authentic reflection of the direction jazz is taking in this country
GROWING up in south London, the musical tastes of drummer Moses Boyd’s family were nothing if not eclectic.
“My parents played lots of gospel and soul,” he tells me, “and as a teenager I listened to hip hop, garage and grime.
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