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Benjamin Herman: NRFS

On Tokyo Sessions (Dox Records), Dutch saxophonist Benjamin Herman captures the restless energy of a series of Tokyo musical encounters he develed into alongside drummer and producer Jimmi Jo Hueting and bassist Thomas Pol—an industrious and vivid encounter between the Dutch and Japanese scenes.

Rather than the polished Tokyo familiar to jazz tourists, the album plunges into the city's adventurous underground scene, home to distinctive artists such as guitarist and composer Otomo Yoshihide and tenor saxophonist Tomoaki Baba.

"NRFS" is just one example of the kaleidoscope of ideas put on record by these musicians, who may be based thousands of miles apart but share a similar creative mind-space.


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