Blog: Tympanogram

Get The Blessing is a 4-piece out of Bristol, England that could just as easily be categorized "instrumental rock" as "jazz." Being that they were playing at a jazz festival, let's call it jazz. Their name is Get The Blessing, they were playing in a church, and there was some congregational clapping, but this music wasn't religious. In fact, bassist Jim Barr (nicknamed Captain Havoc by his bandmates), formerly of Portishead, explained after the first number, "Low Earth Orbit," that the music they would play could be placed into two categories, science or sentimental rubbish. Normally [...]