Benjamin Herman alto saxophone is regarded as one of the most outstanding figures of the Dutch jazz and improvisation in the world. Like no other he has jazz stripped of some dull and dusty image. With a relentless work ethic he plunges from project to project, the performances with the New Cool Collective, which he founded a thread. In his career, which started after he graduated in 1991 with honors
… from the Conservatory of Hilversum, he distinguished several times, and he plays with big names in jazz and pop world such as Paul Weller, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Wouter Hamel, Misha Mengelberg Michiel Borstlap and Hans Teeuwen. A more introverted side late Herman heard in the soundtrack which he made in 2008 Campert, the documentary about the writer and poet Remco Campert.more