Listen to Iggy Pop laugh along to 'Cut Loose - A Lesson in Jazz' (featuring Matt Berry) on his BBC6 Music show. It’s a shame that we can’t release this version. This is the first single from Ben Castle and the Blah Street Band’s EP, ‘An EP’
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‘AN EP’ IS A COLLECTION OF PREPOSTEROUS VERSIONS OF CLASSIC JAZZ STANDARDS, WITH GUEST APPEARANCES FROM MATT BERRY, BETH ROWLEY AND ROY CASTLE.
The band is comprised of long-term collaborators and friends, Mark Edwards, Tim Harries, Troy Miller and many others.
The long awaited single from the preposterous Jazz collective ‘Ben Castle and the Blah Street Band’ is finally here and features the distinctive voice of Matt Berry, explaining definitively what Jazz actually is.
Katharine Timoney’s New EP, produced by Ben and Mark Edwards is out now!
Click the album to find it on Spotify
Ben wrote the brass arrangements for ‘Mister Holland’ and ‘Long List Of Troubles’ from Gregory Porter’s new album ‘All Rise’, out now on Blue Note.
If you leave a human in lockdown for long enough, they will eventually do a mashup of So What and Blind Date.
Ben co-wrote the music for the latest Just Eat advert with Luis Almau at Soundtree Music and arranged the Big Band score.
Lovely Jazzwise review of Ben and long time collaborator Mark Edwards' first duo experiment at The Verdict in Brighton. A "wholly unpredictable, entirely improvised journey through sound". There will be more.