Tomorrow’s Warriors: A Grime Supreme
Feat. Moses Boyd and XVNGO
Saturday 25th November 8.00pm
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”.
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Ayodeji Ijishakin aka XVNGO, is a pioneering saxophonist, at the forefront of the Jazz Drill and Post-Trap genre's. Fusing the sounds of drill, trap, jazz, and electronic music. Ijishakin’s music is heavily informed by his training as a neuroscientist, and his interests range all the way from German idealism to modern theoretical neuroscience.
Tickets:
Early Bird: £10 Sold out
General Advance: £15
On the Door: £20
With thanks to d&b audiotechnik for supporting the project.
Tomorrow’s Warriors
Tomorrow’s Warriors is a leading talent development organisation, creative producer, learning and training provider, consultancy and charity specialising in jazz. Founded in 1991, we help aspiring young artists discover their magic, nurture nascent talent, achieve creative ambitions, and build engaged, diverse audiences.
Over almost three decades, Tomorrow’s Warriors has proved a crucial development platform for many of the artists now tearing up the international jazz scene – Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Cassie Kinoshi and Nérija, Femi Koleoso and Ezra Collective, Binker Golding, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons Of Kemet, Cherise Adams-Burnett, Eska, Denys Baptiste, Soweto Kinch, Zara McFarlane, and so many more…
A Grime Supreme
Tomorrow’s Warriors secured funding through the Youth Music Trailblazer scheme to deliver A GRIME SUPREME in Gloucester. The expanded development programme builds on the first pilot workshop held in April 2022 at the Southbank Centre, London.
The initial 2022 workshop sessions featured TW alumni Moses Boyd and XVNGO alongside acclaimed producer Swindle and was made possible by the amazing support of the Baytrilla Memorial Fund. Bailey Churchill (aka Baytrilla) was a talented DJ and music producer with a bright future, who tragically passed away in 2020 aged just 26. The Memorial Fund was established by Bailey’s mother, Jo, to honour his memory and help fulfil some of his music dreams.
The project seeks to address diversity within the music industry talent pipeline, inequality of access to music instrument education based on financial means and tackle the lack of representation for black musicians in the music industry, championing musical styles of black origin.