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Ben Crosland

North York Skies

By Ben Crosland Quintet

Label: Jazz Cat Records / Music Connection / ECN Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Optimist; North York Skies; Howardian Undulations; Ballad Of Lilla Howe; The Blakey Lions; George And Monty; Breathing Space; Fat Betty; Purple is The Colour; Vigilamus; The View From Room 12; Ain Howe Farewell.

Ben Crosland Quintet: North York Skies

by Neil Duggan
August 7, 2026

Bassist Ben Crosland's compositions are invariably rooted in strong melodies, but they are equally shaped by a sense of place. North York Skies is a heartfelt tribute to the North York Moors, celebrating the beauty, history, folklore and mythology of the upland national park in the English county of North Yorkshire. As Crosland explains, “The twelve compositions are ...

Harken!

By Ben Crosland

Label: Jazz Cat
Released: 2024
Track listing: Welshcake; Billie's Blessing; AB4BC; Humility; Ambition; Resilience; Kindness; Lazy Susan; Cairnbank; Black Crow; Lonely Streets; Lester Lopes Out.

Threeway with special guest John Etheridge: Harken!

by Neil Duggan
June 22, 2024

2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Threeway. This chamber jazz trio without drums consists of bassist Ben Crosland, pianist Steve Lodder and Steve Waterman on trumpet and flugelhorn. They have released three previous albums on the Jazz Cat label: Conversations (2005), Songs of the Year (2009) and Looking Forward, Looking Back (2013). For this recording, they ...

The Ray Davies Songbook

By Ben Crosland

Label: Jazz Cat Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: All Day and All of the Night; Waterloo Sunset; You Really Got Me; See My Friend (sic); Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy; Sunny Afternoon; Dedicated Follower of Fashion; Tired of Waiting for You; Dead End Street; I Need You; Set Me Free; A Well Respected Man.

Ben Crosland Quintet: The Ray Davies Songbook

by Roger Farbey
June 2, 2016

Given the number of hit songs Ray Davies has written over his years fronting The Kinks, it's astonishing that nothing like this CD has ever seen the light of a laser. There have been a myriad of Beatles tunes set to jazzy interpretations plus jazz covers of the music of other 1960s rock stars including Jimi ...