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Ezra Collective

February 2024

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    Mobo awards 2024: Central Cee tops winners thanks to megahit Sprinter

    London MC wins best male and song of the year, while Potter Payper beats stiff competition to win album of the year

December 2023

  • Taylor Swift performing on stage

    Festival organisers sound alarm as big-name artists shun their events

  • Tilda Swinton photographed in London by Lillie Eiger for the Observer New Review.

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November 2023

  • Ezra Collective frontline James Mollison, TJ Koleoso and Ife Ogunjobi, with Femi Koleoso (drums) and Joe Armon-Jones (keys) at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Ezra Collective review – a home-town triumph for jazz’s young heroes

    Fresh from their Mercury prize win, the genre-melting, future-building London party band bring out guests aplenty in a night of inspirational, infectious joy

October 2023

  • Ezra Collective performing live in Lagos, Nigeria, October 2023

    Mercury prize winners Ezra Collective: ‘A bassline and drumbeat puts everyone on the same page’

    As the genre-hopping London group visit Lagos – the home of Afrobeat – ahead of a Royal Albert Hall gig, bandleader Femi Koleoso explains how music can create positive social change amid poverty and youth violence

September 2023

  • Hugh Muir

    Take the vitality of diverse Britain, set it to music. That’s why Ezra Collective deserve their Mercury prize

    Hugh Muir
    There is a musical and social power in the fusion of cultures we see in our inner cities. Plaudits to a band that captures that, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir
  • Alexis Petridis

    Ezra Collective’s Mercury win finally acknowledges a golden age for UK jazz

    Alexis Petridis
    Sometimes the Mercury prize merely anoints artists we already know are great – but by broadening out and awarding it to a jazz group, it feels more worthwhile
  • Ezra Collective at the 2023 Mercury prize ceremony.

    Mercury prize 2023: London group Ezra Collective secure first ever jazz win

    Band say unexpected win is ‘testimony to good, special people putting time and effort’ into helping young people to play music

November 2022

  • Ezra Collective

    Ezra Collective: Where I’m Meant to Be review – brilliant follow-up from the inventive party band

    This sophisticated second album from the five instrumentalists could just see them cross over to the big league
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