{{short description|British jazz group}} {{COI|date=May 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use British English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Get the Blessing | image = Get the Blessing 2011.JPG | caption = Get the Blessing, Treibhaus Innsbruck 2011 | alias = The Blessing | origin = Bristol, England, United Kingdom | genre = Jazz rock | years_active = 1999–present | label = Cake/Candid | website = {{URL|gettheblessing.com}} | current_members = Jake McMurchie<br/>Pete Judge<br/>Jim Barr<br/>Clive Deamer | past_members = }}
'''Get the Blessing''' (previously known as '''the Blessing''') are a jazz rock quartet based in Bristol, England.<ref name="Nastos">{{cite web |last1=Nastos |first1=Michael G. |title=Get the Blessing |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/get-the-blessing-mn0002105001/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=19 January 2019 }}</ref> The band formed in 1999 when Jim Barr (bass guitar) and Clive Deamer (drums), who had played with Portishead, joined Jake McMurchie (saxophone) and Pete Judge (trumpet) over their appreciation of Ornette Coleman.<ref name="Nastos" /><ref name="bandcamp">{{cite web|url=https://gettheblessing.bandcamp.com/music|title=Music : Get The Blessing|access-date=2026-05-08}}</ref>
Get the Blessing have released several albums; ''All Is Yes'' won best album at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards.<ref name="BBCJAZZAWARDS2008">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazzawards2008/winners/ |title=BBC – Music – Jazz Awards 2008 |website=BBC |date=2009-03-16 |access-date=2009-11-17}}</ref> Their album ''Bristopia'' was released in 2018. thumb|British jazz quartet Get the Blessing in concert at The Palladium, Warsaw, Poland - May 2012. ==Style== Get the Blessing combine jazz and rock.<ref name="Nastos" /><ref name="JAZZWISE20080327">{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/reviews-mainmenu-132/19-cd-reviews/9297-the-blessing-all-is-yes |website=Jazzwise |author=Andy Robson |date=27 March 2008 |title=The Blessing – All is Yes |access-date=2009-11-17}}</ref><ref name="BBCALLISYESREVIEW">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/4jvr/ |title=BBC – Music – Review of The Blessing – All is Yes |website=BBC |author=Chris Jones |date=8 March 2008 |access-date=2009-11-17}}</ref><ref name="TIMES20080208">{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article3327572.ece|website=The Times |author=David Sinclair |date=8 February 2008 |title=The Blessing: Bar Academy |access-date=2009-11-17}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Most of their songs are instrumental, although there have been guest singers such as Tammy Payne on "The Unnameable" and "Music Style Product" and Deamer on "Bugs in Amber". For promotional pictures and record covers, they often cover their heads with orange cellophane.<ref name="TIMES20080208" /> The ''Guardian'' wrote that the band's music contains "horn laments and full-on free thrashes".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/20/get-the-blessing|title=4 star review of GTB at Kings Place, March 2013|last=Fordham|first=John|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> The ''Times'' described their live performances have been described as "technically audacious, mysterious and droll".<ref name="TIMES20080208"/>
==Members{{anchor|Band_members}}== thumb|Jake McMurchie * Pete Judge (trumpet) has composed music for soundtracks<ref name="Nastos" /> and has worked with three cane whale, Alex Vann of Spiro, Paul Bradley of Me band, and Eyebrow with Paul Wigens of Blurt. * Jake McMurchie (saxophone) leads the band Michelson Morley and has played with Portishead and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.<ref name="Nastos" /> * Jim Barr (bass guitar) – Barr is a session musician who has worked with Peter Gabriel and Portishead.<ref name="Nastos" /> * Clive Deamer (drums, vocals) is a session musician who has played with Radiohead, Portishead, Jeff Beck, Alison Moyet, Siouxsie Sioux, Roni Size, and Reprazent. He has been a member of Hawkwind and Robert Plant's Strange Sensation.<ref name="Nastos" />
==Discography== *2008 – ''All Is Yes'' (released as the Blessing) (Cake/Candid) *2008 – ''Bleach Cake''/''The Unnameable'' (released as the Blessing) (Cake/Candid) *2009 – ''Bugs in Amber'' (Cake/Candid) *2012 – ''OCDC'' (Naim Jazz) *2014 – ''Lope and Antilope'' (Naim Jazz) *2015 – ''Astronautilus'' (Naim Jazz) *2018 – ''Bristopia'' (Kartel) *2020 - ''Rarer Teas'' (Kartel) *2023 - ''Pallett'' (All is Yes Records)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Get the Blessing}} * {{Official site}}
{{Authority control}} Category:Musical groups established in 1999 Category:English jazz ensembles Category:English rock music groups Category:1999 establishments in England Category:Candid Records artists Category:Rock music groups from Bristol