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2008 in music
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) debut album by
Get the Blessing
Get the Blessing (previously known as the Blessing) are a jazz rock quartet based in Bristol, England. The band formed in 2000 when Jim Barr (bass guitar) and Clive Deamer (drums), who had played with Portishead, joined Jake McMurchie (saxop ...
(known as The Blessing at the time of its release), the
jazz rock
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quartet based in
Bristol
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, England. The album won best album at the 2008
BBC Jazz Awards
The BBC Jazz Awards were set up in 2001 and had the status of one of the premier jazz awards in the United Kingdom (among those presenting the awards were Denis Lawson, Sue Mingus, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ian Carr, Clive James, Michael Gibbs (compose ...
.
Track listing
#"Bleach Cake" – 2:59
#"That Ain't It" – 5:23
#"Another Brother's Mother" – 3:24
#"Cake Hole" – 4:33
#"Loubia" – 8:19
#"Can't Believe in Faith" – 3:33
#"Thermos" – 3:53
#"Suki's Suzuki" – 3:23
#"Equal and Opposite" – 5:14
#"Small Fish, Small Pond" – 4:22
*Note: "Equal and Opposite" has been mastered with a minute's silence at the end, making the track 6:14 in total. "Small Fish, Small Pond" is not listed.
Personnel
*Jake McMurchie – saxophone,
gong
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*Pete Judge – trumpet,
glockenspiel
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*Jim Barr –
double bass
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, bass guitar,
vibraphone
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*Clive Deamer – drums
Guests
*
Adrian Utley
Adrian Francis Utley (born 27 April 1957) is an English musician, record producer, and a member of the band Portishead.Jurek, ThomAdrian Utley Biography, Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2016
Career
Born in Northampton,Mejia, Paula (2015)In Sea ...
– electric guitar ("That Ain't It")
*Tammy Payne – vocals ("Loubia")
*Gina Griffin – violin ("Loubia")
Technical
*Recorded live at J&J Studios, Bristol, 2007
*Mixed by Jim Barr
*Mastered by Shawn Joseph
Release history
*7 February 2008: Cake Music (
Candid Records
Candid Records was a jazz record label first established in New York City.
Early Candid Records
The CANDID jazz label was founded in New York City in 1960 as a subsidiary of Cadence Records, owned by Archie Bleyer. The jazz writer and civil righ ...
, CACD 78550)
References
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2008 albums
Get the Blessing albums
Candid Records albums