Ezra Collective is a British jazz quintet composed of drummer and bandleader Femi Koleoso, bassist TJ Koleoso, keyboardist Joe Armon-Jones, trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi, and tenor saxophonist James Mollison.[1] The group fuses elements of afrobeat, calypso, reggae, hip-hop, soul and jazz, and frequently collaborates with fellow London-based jazz musicians such as Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd.[2][3] They are the recipients of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize.
The members of Ezra Collective met at the jazz programme Tomorrow's Warriors, run by Gary Crosby.[4] The jazz group has claimed that they faced challenges in succeeding as young jazz musicians in London, with Femi Koleoso saying: "I saw jazz music as an elite art form that I didn't have access to."[5] He puts down the group's success as being able to freely express their musical influences from their youth. The band has said that Robert Glasper, and Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly provided early inspiration for their "template" as a jazz band.[4]
Genre-bending British new-jazz outfit playing an eclectic mix of Afrobeat, jazz, grime, and R&B.
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July 24, 2023 Donostia / San Sebastián
58 Jazzaldia Ezra Collective
Femi Koleoso (drums)
TJ Koleoso (bass)
Joe Armon-Jones (keyboards)
Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet)
James Mollison (sax)
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