After the recording of The London Session (2006), alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman was asked to compose the soundtrack for a documentary about the writer Remco Campert. A very devoted jazz fan, Campert is part of the Vevendigers, a group of Dutch writers who started publishing in the 1950s. This prompted Herman to connect the session with Dutch post-war jazz. After seeing the first images, which
… show Campert from a different side than most people knew him, Herman decided that the soundtrack should be given a dynamic character. With pianist Gideon van Gelder, bassist Sean Fasciani and drummer Joost Kroon, he entered a completely different musical world. Campert played the typewriter and can be heard on the bonus track Lamento. Although the music plays a subordinate role to the images in these types of projects, Campert has nevertheless become a beautiful, atmospheric, self-contained CD. (AD)more
