Solway Stories
Ben Crosland Quintet. Solway Stories |
Ben Crosland (new album ‘Solway Stories’)
John Fordham writes: Across three fruitful decades playing his own laid-back mix of bebop, jazz-rock, pop hooks and swing, the Huddersfield composer, bass guitarist and bandleader Ben Crosland has been steadily rubbing home the message that you don’t have to be a Londoner to make an enduring mark on the UK jazz scene, or turn up the volume to flag up excitement, or follow fashionable notions of what cultural references are in or out. Read More |
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Dinner Jazz with Mark Walker on Jazz FM. 14th July 2021.
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' BBC Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests with Alyn Shipton. 1st August 2021. Cross Border Blues from Solway Stories.'
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