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| Get the Blessing - 19/11/08 The Vortex, LJF |
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Emerging as a major strand throughout this year’s London Jazz Festival is indie influenced jazz. Identified by simple and infectious rhythms, blaring horns and thrashing drums Get the Blessing certainly match the criteria. Half of the band, drummer Clive Deamer and electric bassist Jim Barr earned their song writing credentials in 90s trip-hop chart success Portishead, they are joined by trumpeter Pete Judge and saxophonist Jake McMurchie to create a pianoless quartet, what is fast becoming a standard line-up for this newly branded jazz. Get the Blessing’s debut album All is Yes was widely received with great enthusiasm winning them this year’s BBC Jazz Award for Best Album, and you can see why. Barr’s pounding repetitive bass licks drive themselves into your mind and the duelling horns short angular phrases relentlessly hook you in to the beat. As they rattled through the songs off the album each a near perfect copy to the CD recording there was an urge for them to drop the controlled frenzy, let rip and loose themselves in the moment. There were some well-crafted quieter moments with Deamer on mallets and echoey electronic effects from both McMurchie and Deamer, which provided beautiful punctuation to the persistent funk fuelled beats. Barr introductions however, did manage to bring a touch of the unexpected with his dry witty remarks such as ‘this one is a healthy take on James Bond, it’s called Quantum of Salad’. As part of a generation who cite Kings of Leon next to Ornette Coleman as their influences Get the Blessing attract a young music savvy crowd and let’s face it, there’s no shortage of them. It comes as no surprise then that a superbly entertaining evening of accessible, tuneful music in a small independent jazz club with a reputation for putting on exciting new breeds of jazz has to turn any late comers away. Get their early, for they are not to be missed. Review - Rebecca Aitchison
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