[1] The band formed in 2000 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.

Get the Blessing combine jazz and rock.

[1][3][4][5] Most of their songs are instrumental, although there have been guest singers such as Tammy Payne on "The Unnameable" and "Music Style Product" and Deamer on "Bugs in Amber".

[5] The Guardian wrote that the band's music contains "horn laments and full-on free thrashes".

[6] The Times described their live performances have been described as "technically audacious, mysterious and droll".