Unplugged | No |
Cover band | No |
Members | 1 |
Dec / 2014 | • | Lantaren Venster New Cool Collective | Rotterdam | |||
Dec / 2014 | • | De Kring sessions | Amsterdam | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | The Kik show guest app | Meppel | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | New Cool Collective W2 | Den Bosch | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | Theater de Stoep | Spijkernisse | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | Cool Jazz festival | Heerhugowaard | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | Theater de Linderberg | De Lindenberg Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NL | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | De Kring sessions | Amsterdam | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | New Cool Collective Amsterdam Jazz Festival | Amsterdam | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | Young Jazz night guest app. | Heerlen | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | The Kik show guest app. | Vlaardingen | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | Dr John show at Baloise Session | Basel | |||
Nov / 2014 | • | Radio 6 show | Hilversum |
Label / Release | Type | Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Dox Records | |||
Trouble | Album | 2014 | |
Café Solo | Album | 2013 | |
Live | Album | 2013 | |
Deal | Album | 2012 | |
‘Sherry Britton’ | Single | 2011 | |
Hypochristmastreefuzz Special Edition 2CD | Album | 2010 | |
Made in China | Single | 2010 | |
Blue Sky Blond | Album | 2009 | |
‘Deelder 65’ | Single | 2009 | |
Hypochristmastreefuzz | Album | 2008 | |
Campert featuring | Album | 2007 | |
The London Session | Album | 2006 | |
Durban Poison | EP | 2006 | |
The Itch | Album | 2005 | |
‘Skunkaholic’ | Single | 2004 |
A-Records | |||
Heterogeneity | Album | 2004 | |
Plays Jaki Byard | Album | 2001 |
Challenge Records | |||
Cafe Alto | Album | 1996 |
Challenge | |||
Get in | Album | 1991 |
Challenge / A-Records | |||
Plays Micha Mengelberg | Album | 2000 |
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.”