This modest line-up of mid-life British jazz instrumentalists has more in common with some of their younger counterparts than meets the eye. The airy, mellow English pastoral qualities and folky singer-songwriter-like harmony and textures of this brass ensemble led by north of England-based electric bassist Ben Crosland, is a predecessor of the septet of bassist Will Collier and saxophonist Adam Waldmann’s Kairos 4tet, for instance. Crosland is joined by a couple of long time associates, the John Surman and Carla Bley recording artist/trumpeter Steve Waterman, and keyboardist Steve Lodder, who have all played together in various quartets and quintets since 1990. The recording is inspired by the sculptures of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth among others located in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the lack of drums makes for more of a plus than a minus here, in the smoother textures and steadying anchor of Crosland on the electric version of his instrument. An Open Place boasts themes that are written and arranged by Crosland, with the ear massaging not to mention ear catching, sometimes choral-like brass (but not brassy) harmonies and riffs being the real highlight of the recording.