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New Cool Collective is a Dutch musical ensemble founded in 1993, with core members 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 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 prize in the Netherlands. In 2013, the band won a Golden Calf at the Dutch Film Festival for the music they made for the Dutch film Toetakeld door de Liefde, in which they also have a cameo as a fictional band. That film's music is included on their album Chin Chin. After Guus Meeuwis' concert Groots Met Een Zachte G in 2013, where New Cool Collective performed with Guus, [3] they collaborated on 2014's Hollandse Meesters (cover versions of Dutch evergreens). New Cool Collective and Guus Meeuwis gave a one-off concert in the Rijksmuseum on October 17, 2014 [4] to celebrate the new album. They also collaborated with Matt Bianco's Mark Reilly 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, with Senegalese saxophonist Thierno Koité from Orchestra Baobab. [5]