Ezra Collective

This comes from his album Year, which was recorded in 1980 on the ECM record label.

A brand new one from the Ezra Collective.

This is called Jubilee Feeling, and it comes from the Ezra Collective, a UK-based group that blends Afrobeat, Calypso, and dance music.

We love the Ezra Collective.

Nicholas Payton and Butcher Brown here with a brand new album and the tune giving tribute to John Coltrane and really updating the sound of that 1965 spiritual masterpiece, A Love Supreme.

We heard here the tune Acknowledgement.

Dropped by the lovely EMS yesterday.

Time I'm waiting.

It's the rhythm that you play.

Thank you.

London-based Afrobeat collective, Ezra Collective.

Yeah, their brand new album just dropped today.

We've been playing tracks off it over the last few weeks here.

Uh, next up, another band that does things their own way.

Ezra Collective is back with a new album called Here Because of Hope.

Aiya.

Aiya, aiya, ayo, Ezra! Wah gwan? You feeling calm and collected? [trumpet fanfare] Ha.

It's only, only love, only love.

It's only love, a-deep inside my soul

So Ezra Collective is a band from the UK.

They formed about a decade ago and have made a big mark on the UK jazz scene.

If I never come, I will never see If I never fall, I will never learn If I never love, I will never feel And if I never feel, I will never grow I know about the sirens, but we got away I'm coming from a poverty, but we still make our way They had me living bell, and then they sent me jail Now I'm feeling like a sailor, trying to navigate I'm on a second landing, puffing 88 We were sleeping on free flow, we puffed in vape I don't like pride, I stay away from ego I know about respect, disrespect get handled I know about pain, I felt a million times People I love die while I'm locked up in a cage I be feeling heartbreak, yeah I can't escape But my soul getting stronger, the mind can't break As you can see Ayo, it's master in the flesh, living life after death No spears and arrows, we got sweets, it's hella fun Catch a survivor, we don't like the violence But you know, lacking could just stop me breathing Everything great, nothing like the gold pavement Surrounded by blocks full of drugs and poverty Postcode wars while the land discriminates Suicide drives people losing their sanity House full of strong roots, hood full of fallen fruits What's a brother meant to do when the streets got no rules? I never wanted to carry a tool, but I'm from an up-block Crazy people everywhere won't hesitate to drop my body Xbox on, Viva Milk I'm juicing Talks of poly from my 88 vapin' AP stacks so they send man to basic I'm far from basic Higher than

From London's multicultural mosaic, that is Ezra Collective, from a new album called Jubilee Feeling, Only Love, featuring Afrobeat singer Paa Saliu, and Melkutis Party before that from their new album Mati, and Sininen Salo, a taste of the Finnish kantele, which is their national string instrument, and electronics.

Poudamayo has a new compilation release called Fête Française, and here is Solar Project with La Père à Pluie, The Umbrella.

Good for these September days.

I mean, starting you off with Passa Lyot, which are not very Francophone, but gonna be giving you a little more variety today.

This is Only in Love by Ezra Collective and Passa Lyot.

Let's go.

[instrumental music]

Cheap.

This is Jubilee Feeling by Ezra Collective.

And before that, another UK artist, I am BBD, featuring Maysgo with Rasta Pasta.

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