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Praise for OCDC

4 stars “… mixes scorching rock with Ornette Coleman-like sax and much more besides to thrilling effect …” The Guardian

5 stars “OCDC reveals Get The Blessing as a contemporary music combo with even more delicious potential than we realised” Venue Magazine

Praise for GTB live

4 stars “Get the Blessing deliver daft between-tunes gags with a winningly apologetic resignation, but there’s nothing resigned, apologetic, or frivolous about their music” The Guardian

“Take one trumpet, one sax, a modicum of electronics and see what magic you can create” London Jazz News

“…they may well be the most original and exciting band on the British scene at the moment.” – Jazzwise (review of Cheltenham Jazz Festival)

“GTB harness rock and jazz with uncompromising power” – Time Out

“…the band’s cool, stylish heat is irresistible.” – The Telegraph

“És un so diferent que deixa els sibarites del jazz convençuts d’una gran troballa, potser la mateixa sensació que va tenir el primer europeu que va tastar a Amèrica la xocolata.” – Ara Estiu, Spain

Praise for Bugs In Amber

5 stars “… this outfit will surely recharge the jazz world.” – BBC Music Magazine

starstarstarstar“… the heavyweights of the contemporary jazz scene” – The Independent

4 stars “… a really varied and inventive genre-crossing set” – The Guardian

“Occasionally you hear a jazz album that you know would shift truckloads of units if only it weren’t labelled ‘jazz’. Bugs in Amber is just such a disc.” – Metro

Praise for All Is Yes

5 stars “Gloriously powerful” – BBC Music Magazine.
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4 stars“Seamless and startling” The Times.
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4 stars “The Blessing are a blast” Mojo
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“A revelation” – London Evening Standard
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