Benjamin Herman

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Benjamin Herman; 2007

Benjamin Herman (* 1968 in London ) is a Dutch jazz saxophonist (alto, C-Melody saxophone) and composer.

Live and act

Herman grew up in Zaandijk , started playing the saxophone at the age of 12 (one year later he was already performing professionally) and studied at the Hilversum Conservatory , where he graduated cum laude in 1991 (and in 1989 the Wessel-Ilcken Prize as best Young jazz musician) and then studied with Dick Oatts at the Manhattan School of Music. His first album Between a Dog and a Lamppost came out in 1992 with the “Benjamin Herman / Maarten van der Grinten Quartet” by him and the guitarist Maarten van der Grinten . Then he worked in the quintet Five Up High with Jasper Blom and Juraj Stanik .

Herman is the band leader of the New Cool Collective (and the New Cool Collective Bigband ), which he founded in 1994 with musician friends. They have played several times at the North Sea Jazz Festival , toured Germany in 1997 and England in 1998, and in 2007 they performed twice a month at the Panama nightclub in Amsterdam. In 1999 they received the Edison Prize for their CD Big (with Georgie Fame and Trijntje Oosterhuis ), their third album after New Cool Collective 1997, More 1998 ( Bring it On followed in 2002 , then numerous other albums).

Herman also plays and records with his own trio and other line-ups under his own name. As a sideman he worked a. a. with Candy Dulfer , Gigantjes, Henk Westbroek and Saskia Laroo and went on tour in 2004 with guitarist Paul Weller . In 2004, pianist Misha Mengelberg and trumpeter Bert Joris played on his album Heterogeneity . This album also won an Edison Prize. In 2005 he recorded the album The Itch with Han Bennink , and in 2006 The London Session with Bart van Lier and Stan Tracey . Other albums followed, such as Hypochristmastreefuzz (Dox, 2011) and, based on his soundtrack for a documentary about Remco Campert, the album Campert - De tijd duurt één mens lang ...

In 2005 he organized the program for “Jazz International Rotterdam”.

Prizes and awards

Herman won the international competition of the Leverkusener Jazztage with the quintet Five Up High and the Heineken Crossover Award with the New Cool Collective . In 2006 he received the Boy Edgar Prize .

Discography (selection)

Albums

Singles

  • 2005: Skunkaholic / Haze (Green Splatter)
  • 2005: Durban Poison
  • 2009: Deelder 65
  • 2010: Made in China (with Janne Schra and Jelte Heringa)
  • 2011: Sherry Britton / Tempest Storm

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the same year he received an invitation to the Thelonious Monk competition, in which Joshua Redman and Chris Potter participated.
  2. ↑ In 2000, Herman released a trio album Plays Misha Mengelberg .

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personal data
SURNAME Herman, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH London