Herbert Joos has been played on NTS shows including Organic Music Tokyo w/ Chee Shimizu, with The Philosophy Of The Fluegelhorn first played on 29 March 2015.

Herbert Joos (* 21. March 1940 in Karlsruhe; † 7. December 2019 in Baden-Baden was a German jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and graphic artist. With his finely pastel sound patterns, the musician also belonged, after Martin Kunzler, to the top group of European jazz composers. Joos, who had learned the trumpet autodidactically and then with a private teacher, studied double bass from 1958 before turning to the flugelhorn, the baritone horn, the mellophone and the alphorn. From the mid-1960s he belonged to the Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe, from which the group Fourmenonly (with Wilfried Eichhorn and Rudolf Theilmann) emerged. He was then a member of various modern and free jazz groups (including Bernd Konrad, Hans Koller, Adelhard Roidinger and Jürgen Wuchner). He played at festivals and the Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden at a flugelhorn workshop with Kenny Wheeler, Ian Carr, Harry Beckett and Ack van Rooyen and attracted attention with his solo album The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn (1973). He also conducted his own wind trio, quartet and orchestra. He received the most recognition during the 1980s as a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. Since the 1990s, he has appeared in particular with the SüdPool project, but also as a duo with Frank Kuruc and in groups with Patrick Bebelaar, Michel Godard, Wolfgang Puschnig, Clemens Salesny and Peter Schindler. Jost played a full and warm trumpet tone, which he roughens with audible breathing air (oriented to the voice of a blues singer).[3] The resulting warm, powerful sound and the romantic-impressionist influence, combined with the affinity for free improvisation, are his special characteristics in the European jazz landscape.

As a graphic artist Joos often worked on the basis of hard contrasted photographs. His portraits of musicians (e.g. Miles Davis) have become known to a wider public and are often printed on the cover of Jazz Podium. He also worked as a book illustrator (among others for the author Gertrud Fussenegger).

Joos died at the age of 79 in December 2019 after an operation in Baden-Baden.