EZRA is a bluegrass and chamber quartet focused on the creation of genre-crossing and style-inclusive new music. The ensemble includes award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Jones on guitar and piano, world-renowned mandolinist Jacob Jolliff, banjo virtuoso Max Allard, and bassist extraordinaire Craig Butterfield. With a focus on collaboration, the quartet has performed and recorded with musical polymath and instrument inventor Mark Stewart, composer Elizabeth Ogonek, pianist/Moog-master Xak Bjerken, with whom they recorded their second album, Earth to EZRA, scheduled for release in September 2024. EZRA has been in residence at several universities, including Cornell, Oberlin College, University of South Carolina, UNC Chapel Hill, Appalachian State University, and East Carolina University. In addition to the two albums dropping in 2024, EZRA has a third album ready to release in early 2025.