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Nr kat.: AL73245
Label  : Challenge (Holandia)

"Benjamin Herman (London, 9 May 1968) is a Dutch jazzmusician. He is best known as an alto saxophonist and as leader of jazz band New Cool Collective. Benjamin Herman also plays the C-melody saxofoon and flute. He also has a radio show on Radio 6 (Netherlands). Herman comes from a family with six children. His twin brother, Jonathan, works as a director. His mother is Dutch, his father was a rabbi and worked as a psychotherapist. At the age of eight Herman and his family moved to the Netherlands. At the age of twelve, Herman started playing the saxophone. At thirteen he was already performing in the professional club circuit. Within a few years Benjamin played all around the world with various groups and initiated his own projects. When he was seventeen, Herman played for the first time at the North Sea Jazz Festival. He studied at the Conservatory of Hilversum,where he graduated cum laude in 1991.In that year Benjamin Herman was the only European that was selected for the Thelonious Monk Competition. He also studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. In 1993 Benjamin Herman founded New Cool Collective, an eight-piece band with influences from jazz-, soul- and Latin music. For this band – and the bigger New Cool Collective Big Band – he composes the music. He is also the leader of the band. In 2011 New Cool Collective released their twelfth album "Eighteen". Benjamin Herman played with other musicians such as Jan Akkerman, Candy Dulfer, Wouter Hamel, de Gigantjes, Henk Westbroek, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Loïs Lane, Michiel Borstlap, Jesse van Ruller, Joost Patocka, Fakkelbrigade, Paul Weller, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, Misha Mengelberg, Pete Philly & Perquisite, Hans Teeuwen, Saskia Laroo, C-Mon & Kypski, Chef'Special en Roos Jonker. In 2012 Benjamin Herman released the Album Deal, which is also the soundtrack of Eddy Terstalls same titled movie. Herman recorded this album with Jesse van Ruller, Joost Kroon,Manuel Hugas, Carlo de Wijs and The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Benjamin Herman will release a new album Café Solo in Spring 2013 which features Ernst Glerum (bass) and Joost Patocka (drums)."