// B'S WAX

About the show

If anyone has earned the right to be your musical guide, it’s Benjamin Herman: a saxophonist and composer with over fifty albums to his name and a lifetime spent digging through the furthest corners of jazz and anything adjacent to it.

In his radio show B’s Wax, Benjamin puts that obsession to work, curating the freshest voices from today’s jazz scene alongside hidden gems buried in decades of records few people ever bothered to find. Expect Japanese salon music next to Senegalese Mbalax, and no-wave followed by obscure film scores. Each episode is a journey through jazz past and present, hand-picked by one of the most curious ears in the business. Come along for the ride, and let Benjamin show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Artist Track Duration Label Album
Count Basie and his Orchestra Hang on Sloopy 2:33 Coral Records Basie’s in the Bag
Teddy Wilson Someone To Watch Over Me 3:05 Metronome Records Someone To Watch Over Me (Remastered) – EP
Stan Getz I Remember When 2:58 Verve Focus
Ray Charles Drown In My Own Tears 3:18 Atlantic Ray Charles (aka: Hallelujah, I Love Her So)
Sarah Vaughan Slow Hot Wind 3:37 Mercury Sarah Vaughan Sings The Mancini Songbook
Marian McPartland, Brad Mehldau Stella By Starlight 4:24 Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (feat. Brad Mehldau)
Sun Ra Quartet When There Is No Sun (Mixed) 4:28 Strut To Those of Earth… And Other Worlds
Hans Dulfer Rice Path 10:21 Catfish El Saxofon
John Lee Hooker Crawling King Snake 2:44 I’m John Lee Hooker
Lionel Hampton & His Just Jazz All Stars China Boy 6:19 Verve The Complete Lionel Hampton Quartets and Quintets with Oscar Peterson on Verve
Dexter Gordon, Cees Slinger, Maarten van Regteren Altena, Martin van Duynhoven Fried Bananas 12:58 Radio Broadcast 22-03-1971