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]

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

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

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Albums
Year Title Artist
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

References

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  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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