Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso on his top 5 Fela Kuti LPs, drum lessons with Tony Allen and dream collabs

Ezra Collective just won a freaking Brit Award for Best British Group!

Talking to drummer and leader Femi Koleoso, we trace the history of band, from its inception as competition-winning teens in 2012, to coming up in the fabled “UK jazz explosion” of 2016-18 alongside contemporaries and friends Moses Boyd, Kokoroko and Nubya Garcia

We also talked at length about how helpful or unhelpful that media buzz was, as well as the role of famous Steam Down club night the seminal We Out Here compilation.

Koleoso also revealed his dream collabs – from Little Simz and Erykah Badu to Herbie Hancock, Mos Def, and even Tame Impala.

And talked about that time he refused to stage a gig for the New York Times, and why he might break up the band and keep all the money …