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AUSTIN, TX- Jazz collectives can sometimes be a mixed bag. When there are too many cooks in the kitchen, a musical ethos may never be achieved. That’s not the case with Ezra Collective.

Ezra Collective is a UK based, five-piece ensemble that not only draws from multiple musical influences, but also marries them into a unique amalgamation of youthful vibrancy.  While the classical jazz influence is inherent in their core, it’s the way they are able to infuse elements of afro beat, hip hop and funk into their compositions that really gives their sound a modern edge. Listening to their recordings will urge you two get out of your seat and shuffle your feet to their tempo.

Watching them perform at SXSW for ATC Live and the British Music Embassy  took their music to another level for me.

They perform like every note they play is necessary to breath life into the creation they are birthing on stage. The focused looks in their eyes, and the precision with which they attacked each of their melodic phrases was intense. They perform with a sense of urgency, and that urgency gave their compositions a little something extra that made their outing a true spectacle.

I was particularly focused on their keyboard player, Joe Armon Jones. He was positioned in a way where he could observe everyone, save the Femi Koleoso on drums,  perform. As he was playing and watching his brethren play, you could see and feel the song’s dynamic with every contortion of his face. Every time a song changed direction, you could see it in his face, and couldn’t help but similarly make a stank face to match.

Ezra Collective released their debut full length album, You Can’t Steal My Joy, on April 26th, 2019, and I have a feeling that it will, like their prior EP Juan Pablo: The Philosopher, be in contention for another award. What You Can’t Steal My Joy has that Juan Pablo doesn’t, however, are featured performances by vocalists, including the otherworldly Jorja Smith. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if this is a foreshadow of what’s to come for them. Like their contemporaries Terrace Martin, Thundercat and BadBadNotGood, I have a feeling we’ll be hearing them providing the soundtrack of numerous popular, and groundbreaking, records to come.

Follow Ezra Collective on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.
Ezra Collective at SXSW presented by ATC Live/British Music Embassy @ Latitude 30 3/12/19. Photo by Derrick K. Lee, Esq. (@Methodman13) for www.BlurredCulture.com.

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