On Saturday night at Brooklyn Bowl, the Crosby Collective made its East Coast debut. For this performance Jason Crosby drew together John and Steve Kimock, Jackie Greene, Jen Hartswick, Lamar Williams Jr, Andy Hess, Tom Guarna and Alethea Mills.

The Collective is known for interpreting Crosby’s mashups, a number of which the group performed at the Bowl. After the bandleader opening with Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk” three mashups then followed: “I Know You Reprise” (“I Know You Rider” and “Tweezer Reprise”),  “Casey’s Eclipse” (“Eclipse” and “Casey Jones”) and Billie Rider” (“Billie Jean” and “Riders on the Storm”).

Other combos included “Southern Band On The Run” (“What’s Going On, “ “Southern Man” and “Band On the Run”),  “Scarlet Dog” (“Scarlet Begonias” and “Black Dog”) “Friend of the Lithium” (“Friend of the Devil” and “Lithium”), “Life Of Mr. Blue Sky” (“Day in the Life,” “Mr. Blue Sky” and “Blue Sky”) and “Running On Happy” (“Running On Empty” and “O Happy Day”).

In a recent Relix interview Crosby shared his process in developing a few of these: “I knew I wanted to do something with ‘Eclipse,’ and for that one, I was listening to Grateful Dead songs looking for something that had a lyrical meter to fit with ‘All that you touch and all that you see…’ Then once I got to ‘Casey Jones,’ I was like, “There it is. ‘Driving that train…’” So it’s about finding that initial connection.

“I’ve got one with ‘Billie Jean’ and ‘Riders on the Storm’ where the initial connection that I found was in the bassline. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cool. Let me explore this.’ With some of them, you make a connection and it dies because you can’t take it all the way there. Those two songs go to the IV chord at the same time, and they have the same bassline, which is enough connecting points.”

On Saturday night he also gave some of his band members the spotlight via such songs as Jackie Greene’s “Gone Wanderin’” and Steve Kimock’s “Hillbillies On PCP.” The encore was “Unbroken Chain.”

A gallery of images from Cassidy Rose appears below.

Crosby Collective, Brooklyn Bowl, June 20, 2026

Blue Rondo A La Turk ->  I Know You Reprise ->  Casey’s Eclipse -> Billie Rider -> Shakedown, Southern Band On The Run, Jack’s Dream, Scarlet Dog, Friend Of The Lithium, Gone Wanderin’, Mothers Song, Hillibillies On PCP, Stella Blue, Life Of Mr. Blue Sky, Running On Happy  E: Unbroken Chain