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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.
Ben and his bass clarinet are featured in Alex Baranowski’s soundtrack to Staged on BBC.
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star as two actors whose West End play has been put on hold due to Covid-19, but whose director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.
The whole series is up on the BBC iPlayer now
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.
Click HERE for the film of Sgt Pepper being played in it's entirety at Philharmonie in Paris by Ed Harcourt, Steve Mason, Pete Doherty, Carl Barât and Gaz Coombes with Ben on woodwinds, sax and alarm clock.
Ben will be part of the Spacebomb house band at the Barbican on 6th October 2017. It will be hosted by Matthew E White and feature performances by Matthew, Natalie Prass, Foxygen, Bedouine, Mike Scott, Slow Club and many more.
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.
Ben wrote the music for this video for the brilliant Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival.