Party: Ben Crosland Quintet plays The Ray Davies Songbook

Party: Ben Crosland Quintet plays The Ray Davies Songbook

Look at the line-up! Easy to understand that they present familiar tunes with a *fresh glow* (Dave Gelly) and help them find a home in the jazz genre

Ben Crosland bass, Dave O'Higgins sax, John Etheridge guitar, Steve Lodder piano. Sebastiaan de Krom drums

Dave Gelly explains: "Ray Davies’s tunes – evocative, catchy and deceptively simple – serve his lyrics so well that it’s easy to take them for granted. By recasting them in the jazz idiom and delicately elaborating their harmonies, bassist and composer Ben Crosland brings them out in a fresh glow."

And look at the rest of the line up!
the stunning John Etheridge with his affectionate gentleness through to blistering passion;
the sensitive and sophisticates sax of Dave O'Higgins;
Steve Lodders superb pianism and fun;
and to hold all this together you need a very reliable, swinging drummer and there are few better than Seb de Krom.