BEN REED

British jazzer taps into the spirt of Canterbury on latest solo endeavour.

GRM

www.progzilla.com/listen/ ON THE DAY Prog speaks to him, session gun and solo artist Ben Reed is re-shelving and re-alphabetising his enormous vinyl collection. He has around 10,000 records, only a few of them on CD, and he doesn’t do digital – he’s never downloaded nor streamed a song in his life. “I would never listen to music digitally,” he says from his cosy attic studio in west London. “One of the main incentives of making music for me is to see it spinning on my turntable.” Well worth a spin, his excellent current album Bandaged is his fourth solo work after 2004 debut Tall Story, Who Dreams Of Hyssop (2009) and Station Masters (2016). As a jobbing bassist, Reed’s played for a diverse roster of hip artists on the XL and…

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