Benjamin Herman Trio
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Benjamin Herman Trio

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Dox Records
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Trouble Album 2014
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Café Solo Album 2013
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Live Album 2013
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Deal Album 2012
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder ‘Sherry Britton’ Single 2011
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Hypochristmastreefuzz Special Edition 2CD Album 2010
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Made in China Single 2010
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Blue Sky Blond Album 2009
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder ‘Deelder 65’ Single 2009
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Hypochristmastreefuzz Album 2008
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Campert featuring Album 2007
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder The London Session Album 2006
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Durban Poison EP 2006
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder The Itch Album 2005
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder ‘Skunkaholic’ Single 2004
A-Records
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Heterogeneity Album 2004
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Plays Jaki Byard Album 2001
Challenge Records
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Cafe Alto Album 1996
Challenge
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Get in Album 1991
Challenge / A-Records
Edit-artist-releases-release-placeholder Plays Micha Mengelberg Album 2000
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Benjamin Herman first came up with the idea of releasing a series of albums with jazz standards in 1996.

His trio album Café Alto appeared in the same year. His latest release Café Solo is the second album from this series – and forms a special addition to his oeuvre. Under his own name and with the New Cool Collective, Benjamin has brought out over 30 albums and vinyl releases.

Café Solo came out of his desire to work in an intimate setting with one of his favourite set-ups: bass (Ernst Glerum) and drums (Joost Patočka).

“Thanks to the cafe and bars around Leidseplein square I learned to play hundreds of evergreens and Broadway songs. From age 18, ‘The American Songbook’ paid my rent as I started my musical education. Since then I’ve put out a nice number of albums. But after my first solo album Café Alto from 1996 I haven’t recorded another set of standards under my own name.”

“But I kept playing in bars. If you stop doing that as a musician, then you are on a whole other trip with whole other plans. For some that’s exactly what they want, but I myself can’t do without those gigs. My best musical experiences happened in bars. And as long as the owner likes the music and there are a couple of extra drinks after closing time, I can take on the world…”

“For Café Solo I wanted the sound of my sax to be the focus. During the first recordings, I even sat on a chair! Joost and Ernst set up behind me. I just leaned back and it all just happened by itself. So we decided to record the whole session this way.”