BEN CROSLAND
Genres: Post Bop, Hard Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Soul Jazz, 21st Century Modern • United Kingdom

For Ben Crosland / Steve Lodder / Steve Waterman trio, Threeway search under "Threeway". Originally a guitarist and sometime drummer, Ben Crosland took up the bass in the late 70s when no one in the function band he was forming wanted to play it! He began to play jazz bass seriously when inspired by beginning a 10 year association with the Wavendon Summer Jazz Course in 1982 , firstly as a student soaking up the wisdom of the late, great Jeff Clyne and later assisting Jeff with the bass guitar students as an assistant tutor. In 1987, he became a member of the Huddersfield Jazz house band, working with Don Rendell, Ian Carr, Dick Morrissey, Peter King, Jim Mullen, Bobby Wellins, Harry Beckett, Louis Stewart, Ronnie Ross and Bill Le Sage amongst many others. In 1990, he formed his first group, a Quintet featuring guitarist Adrian Ingram and saxophonist Rod Mason. read more...