New Cool Collective with JUles Deelder

[Durium]

NEW COOL COLLECTIVE + JULES DEELDER

On Saturday the 16th of May, 2009, The New Cool Collective performed at the Stadsschouwburg of Middelburg, in the southwest part of The Netherlands, as the run-up for the coming International Jazz Festival of Middelburg, scheduled in the last weekend of May 2009.

The eight men of the New Cool Collective, directed by Benjamin Herman, had invited two special guest to tour Jules Deelder, Dutch poet, nicknamed Nachtburgemeester van Rotterdam (= the Night-mayor of Rotterdam) and his saxophone player Ger “Sax” Van Voorden.

The first set started with the great tune Trees and Grass and Things, a tune, originally recorded by the Charles Williams Septet in 1972. followed by tunes like Boca Arriba and Lang Lang, named after piano player Lang Lang, with a great guitar solo by Anton Goudsmit, in his typically expressive and energetic way of playing his instrument. ( The Guardian, an English news paper seems to have labelled him once as: “Seeing Anton play his guitar, makes you wonder where the fire escape is..." )

The audience got what it wanted - A professional show by skilled musicians; fast latin flavoured rhythms by the percussion group ( a great solo by Frank van Dok on conga); the ludicrous poems and stories by Jules Deelder; the energetic solos by Anton Goudsmit and groovy tunes by Ger Sax Van Voorden, Deelder's companion for years in the Trio Me Reet + 2.

Learn more about New Cool Collective with Jules Deelder in concert

Keep swinging

Durium