New Cool Collective | |
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New Cool Collective Bigband at Sittard, Netherlands in 2008 | |
Background information | |
Origin | Netherlands |
Genres | Jazz, big band |
Years active | 1993–present |
Website | www |
New Cool Collective is a Dutch musical ensemble founded in 1993, core members are Benjamin Herman (sax), Joost Kroon (drums), Frank van Dok (percussion), Willem Friede (keyboard / arranger), Jos de Haas (percussion), Leslie Lopez (bass) and David Rockefeller (trumpet). [1]
They also perform in a 19-piece big band line-up; the New Cool Collective Big Band consists of two alto saxophones, two tenor saxophones, one baritone saxophone, four trumpets, three trombones, one bass trombone, guitar, Fender Rhodes, percussion, congas, drums and vocals. [2]
In 2000 they won the Edison Jazz Award, the most prestigious music award of the Netherlands. In 2013 the band won a Golden Calf award on the Dutch Film Festival for the music they made for the Dutch movie Toegetakeld door de liefde , in which they also have a cameo as a fictional band. The music of that movie is recorded on their album Chin Chin.
Following Guus Meeuwis Groots Met Een Zachte G 2013 concert where New Cool Collective performed with Guus, [3] they went on to collaborate on 2014's Hollandse Meesters (cover-versions of Dutch evergreens). New Cool Collective and Guus Meeuwis performed a one-off concert at the Rijksmuseum on October 17, 2014 [4] to celebrate the new album. They also collaborated with Mark Reilly from Matt Bianco on 2015's The Things You Love-EP. Both were followed with parts 1 and 2 of Electric Monkey Sessions.
In 2018 the band received another Edison Award for their album New Cool Collective Big Band ft. Thierno Koité, featuring Senegalese saxophone player Thierno Koité from Orchestra Baobab. [5]
Year | Title | Artist |
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1997 | Soul Jazz Latin Flavours Nineties Vibe | |
1998 | More Soul Jazz Latin Flavours Nineties Vibes | |
1999 | Big | |
2002 | Bring It On | featuring Geike Arnaert, Andrew Roachford |
2005 | TRIPPIN’ | featuring Tony Allen |
2007 | LIVE | |
2008 | Out of Office | featuring Matt Bianco, Lilian Vieira |
2009 | Live in Luxor (DVD) | featuring Jules Deelder, Ger Sax |
2009 | Sugar Protocol | featuring Los Papines, Mapacha Africa |
2010 | Pachinko | |
2010 | In Concert | |
2010 | Chocolade | featuring Typhoon |
2011 | Eighteen | |
2013 | Chin Chin | |
2014 | Hollandse Meesters | featuring Guus Meeuwis |
2014 | Electric Monkey Sessions | |
2015 | The Things You Love | featuring Matt Bianco (Mark Reilly) |
2016 | New Cool Collective Big Band featuring Thierno Koite | featuring Thierno Koite |
2017 | Electric Monkey Sessions 2 | |
2018 | XXV | |
2019 | Dansé Dansé | |
2020 | Trippin’ Redux | featuring Tony Allen |
2020 | High Anxiety feat Matt Bianco | featuring Matt Bianco |
2021 | YUNIKōN | |
2022 | Trippin’ (Reissue) | featuring Tony Allen |
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