Tomorrow’s Warriors: A Grime Supreme

Feat. Moses Boyd and XVNGO

A GRIME SUPREME develops new musical collaborations between jazz musicians and grime artists, building cross-genre understanding and opening new opportunities to participants. Tomorrow’s Warriors partnered with The Music Works and Jazz Stroud to recruit local musicians for the project. This year’s sessions have featured Moses Boyd, XVNGO and Rider Shafique for guidance through this creative process, which culminates with a perfomance at The Goods Shed.

Tomorrow’s Warriors alumni, Moses Boyd is a British jazz drummer, composer, record producer, bandleader and radio host, popularly known for blending multiple genres into jazz to create various new sub-genres. A double MOBO and Jazz FM Award winner, Moses’s live and studio collaborations have been as varied as they have been prolific. A prominent figure within the modern London jazz scene, Boyd has been described by The Guardian as "a progenitor of the current London jazz scene", and "a poster boy of the London jazz revival”.

At the age of 16, Moses was introduced to British jazz icon Gary Crosby OBE and his band. Crosby would text him and say, ‘I’ve got a gig tomorrow, do you want to come and play? Bring your friends’ – and they’d hone their skills alongside each other, and jazz legends three times their age. Coming up through the thriving new London jazz scene, and its vibrant underground live circuit, was an experience that was “collaborative by nature,” he says. “You can’t really do it on your own, so it becomes a real community – it’s in the DNA of the music”.