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Jim Barr
bassist
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- United Kingdom
- Since
- present
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Get the Blessing (previously known as the Blessing) are a jazz rock quartet based in Bristol, England. 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.
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Get the Blessing have released several albums; All Is Yes won best album at the 2008 BBC Jazz Awards. Their album Bristopia was released in 2018.
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Limbo synthesizer, bass
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Data from MusicBrainz, saved 12 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.