Moses Boyd is a British jazz drummer, composer, producer, and bandleader. His debut solo album Dark Matter was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize 2020. Boyd is a prominent figure and, according to The Guardian, the most prominent face of the contemporary London jazz scene.
In 2015, Moses Boyd and saxophonist Binker Golding formed the duo Binker & Moses, releasing three albums in three years that won MOBO, Jazz FM, and Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Their fourth album together, Feeding the Machine, was released in 2022.
At the beginning of his career, he was a member of The Peter Edwards Trio, with whom he released two albums. Alongside the duo Binker & Moses, drummer and bandleader Boyd also ran his own jazz band Exodus, with whom he released two mixtapes, followed by the EP Absolute Zero (2017) and the album Displaced Diaspora (2018).
As a sideman and producer, he has collaborated with stars such as Beyoncé, Little Simz, Lonnie Liston Smith, Zara McFarlane, Obongjayar, Sons of Kemet, Soweto Kinch, Floating Points, Sampha, and Four Tet. Boyd was also a presenter on BBC Radio 1Xtra and has several times stood in for the famous British jazz populariser Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6.
Moses Boyd is known for combining jazz with various genres, playing and composing in the subgenres of nu-jazz and fusion. He incorporates elements of electronic music, grime, broken beat, highlife, afrobeats, soca, reggae, drum and bass, and jungle into his work. He cites Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and Dizzee Rascal's Boy in Da Corner, southern hip hop, N.E.R.D., and Sonny Rollins' recordings as his main influences.