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Ezra Collective’s 'Chapter 7', now celebrating its tenth anniversary, captured the restless energy of a young band finding its voice - spiritually curious, rhythmically fearless, committed to community as compass. Built on grooves made for sweat-slicked basements and late-night communion, its seven movements reveal a blueprint forming: jazz as a living expression of where you come from and who you stand with.

This 'Chapter 7 - 10th Anniversary Edition' reissue revisits that formative statement from a band that would soon become trailblazers as both the first British jazz act to win the Mercury Prize, and then a BRIT Award. Remastered for vinyl and expanded with new incarnations - live cuts from NPR's Tiny Desk and the band’s landmark Royal Albert Hall performance - the reissue presents 'Chapter 7' not simply as an early document, but a living manifesto: rhythm as ritual, youth culture as sanctuary, and jazz as an open invitation.

TRACK LISTING

1. Enter the Jungle
2. Chasing the Square
3. Chapter 7 (Feat. Ty)
4. I Have a God (Feat. Zara McFarlane)
5. Colonial Mentality
6. Chapter 7 [Live at NPR's Tiny Desk]
7. I Have a God (Feat. Zara McFarlane) [Live at the Royal Albert Hall]