New Cool Collective
New Cool Collective Bigband at Sittard, Netherlands in 2008
New Cool Collective Bigband at Sittard, Netherlands in 2008
Background information
OriginNetherlands
GenresJazz, big band
Years active1993–present
Websitewww.newcoolcollective.com

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]

Discography

Albums
YearTitleArtist
1997Soul Jazz Latin Flavours Nineties Vibe
1998More Soul Jazz Latin Flavours Nineties Vibes
1999Big
2002Bring It Onfeaturing Geike Arnaert, Andrew Roachford
2005TRIPPIN’featuring Tony Allen
2007LIVE
2008Out of Officefeaturing Matt Bianco, Lilian Vieira
2009Live in Luxor (DVD)featuring Jules Deelder, Ger Sax
2009Sugar Protocolfeaturing Los Papines, Mapacha Africa
2010Pachinko
2010In Concert
2010Chocoladefeaturing Typhoon
2011Eighteen
2013Chin Chin
2014Hollandse Meestersfeaturing Guus Meeuwis
2014Electric Monkey Sessions
2015The Things You Lovefeaturing Matt Bianco (Mark Reilly)
2016New Cool Collective Big Band featuring Thierno Koitefeaturing Thierno Koite
2017Electric Monkey Sessions 2
2018XXV
2019Dansé Dansé
2020Trippin’ Reduxfeaturing Tony Allen
2020High Anxiety feat Matt Biancofeaturing Matt Bianco
2021YUNIKōN
2022Trippin’ (Reissue)featuring Tony Allen

References

  1. ↑ http://www.newcoolcollective.com New Cool Collective Official Website
  2. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/New-Cool-Collective-Big-Band-LIVE/release/1874290 New Cool Collective Big Band Live album at discogs.com
  3. ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guus-meeuwis/2013/philips-stadion-eindhoven-netherlands-33f0c0ad.html
  4. ↑ https://www.paradiso.nl/en/program/hollandse-meesters---guus-meeuwis-new-cool-collective-big-band/130154
  5. ↑ "2018".
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