Submit your Ezra Collective questions for the Love Supreme festival | Ezra Collective

Vanguards of the London jazz scene, the five-piece Ezra Collective have spent the last decade electrifying from Glastonbury to Wembley Arena with their high-energy performances. Making history in 2023 by becoming the first – and still only – jazz act to win the Mercury prizeand won the best group at the Brit awards in 2025, the group has come to define an unchanging sound that combines the traditions of jazz and music with West African music that the leader of the group Femi Koleoso and his brother, bassist TJ Koleoso, grew up with.

Formed in 2012 after meeting at the Mawa Warriors jazz club, the group spent their early years infiltrating jazz clubs such as Ronnie Scott’s London club to learn about greats like drummer Tony Allen, and began writing songs that combined Allen’s afrobeat standards with hip hop. Their first EP, Chapter 7, was released independently in 2016, and coincided with the arrival of young players like saxophonist Nubya Garcia and drummer Moses Boyd, who removed the negative jazz stereotypes to instead attract a new, younger audience to the music.

In the past years, Ezra Collective have released three albums that move freely between spiritual jazz, funk, soul, R&B and hip-hop, all connected by the downbeat of their music. Colleagues will be appearing with the group, including rappers Loyle Carner and Kojey Radical, singers Olivia Dean and Jorja Smith and Arsenal football legend Ian Wright. In September, the group will release their fourth album, Here Because of Hope.

Exclaiming the importance of youth clubs in their speech for the Mercury Prize, the group also holds workshops to train young musicians, and has collaborated with youth groups such as Kinetika Bloco at Glastonbury and on stage at the Brit Awards.

Now’s your chance to ask Ezra Collective everything you ever wanted to know about their origins in the band, the British jazz scene, their next album and what it takes to keep the pipeline of young talent going in the UK.

On Friday 3 July at 4pm, I’ll be speaking to a group at the Love Supreme festival in East Sussex, and they’re keen to hear from music students, teachers and young people – as well as anyone with a burning question. Write your questions in the comments below and the best ones will be asked on stage, and a summary of the Q&A session will also be posted online soon.