// 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 Album Label
Matsuura Toshio Theme From Lupin III (Walther P99 Mix) Punch The Monkey! Lupin The Third 30th Anniversary Remixes Readymade Records
Koichi Sugii Kiso-Bushi (木曾節) Japanese Jazz & Salon Music, 1936-1941, Vol. 1 1938 Radiophone Archives
Misaki Umei Daydream? Asleep Above Creatures Plum(es)
Count Buffalo & The Jazz Rock Band Mago Uta JAPANISE JAZZ
Hideo Shiraki In Fiesta In Fiesta Trunk Records
Takeshi Inomata & His West Liners Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Modern Punch For You
Toshiyuki Miyama and his New Herd Danchone-bushi Tsuchi no ne
Mountain Moch Kilimanjaro Atmos 2000 Perfect Times
Daisuke Tanabe stomp nekozilla-san Hole on Layers Borrowed Scenery
CHO CO PA CO CHO CO QUIN QUIN ハイヤー ハイヤー – Single CHO CO PA CO CHO CO QUIN QUIN
Sadao Watanabe California Shower California Shower Victor Entertainment
Toshiko Akiyoshi Kyo-Shu The Toshiko Trio 1201 Music (Americas) LLC
Seatbelts Tank! Cowboy Bebop (Original Soundtrack)
Nobuo Hara and His Sharps And Flats Tabaruzaka New Jazz In Japan Columbia