Jasper van 't Hof
Jasper van't Hof (* June 30, 1947 in Enschede, Netherlands) is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboardist.
Life
His father was a jazz trumpeter, his mother a singer with a classical education. At age five he was given piano lessons. His first experience in front of audiences he made in school bands and jazz clubs.
He created with Association PC, the free jazz-rock group led by drummer Pierre Courbois, the guitarist Toto Blanke and bassist Sigi Busch, his international breakthrough in the early 1970s. He belonged to the pianist, the electric piano and organ playing the same time and developed through new electronic instruments sound aesthetics. Characteristic of the themes and improvisations by van't Hof are still his preference for complex, fractured time signatures. He was elected to a Jazzpoll the leading European synthesizer player in 1972.
Mid-1970s, he sat with his band Pork Pie, whose name is a play on an old Lester Young's number accents in jazz-rock. His teammates were the guitarist Philip Catherine and saxophonist Charlie Mariano and changing rhythm sections, first JF Jenny -Clark and Aldo Romano. Then he returned to the grand piano and played a solo record.
Since 1984 he has been successful with the Pili Pili project. This is a mix of European jazz with African music and danceable grooves. A fifteen-minute trance production with this group made him famous in the club scene. With his project Hotlips he returned in 2005 to earlier jazz-rock preferences back.
Like most fusion musicians he worked all his life at the same time on different projects with different musicians such as Wolfgang Dauner, George Gruntz ( piano ), Trilok Gurtu ( percussion), Angélique Kidjo (vocals), Wayne Krantz (guitar), Didier Lockwood ( violin), Alphonse Mouzon (drums ), Jean -Luc Ponty ( violin ) and Archie Shepp (saxophone ). Until 2007 he worked for the music of the Music Academy of Basel as a lecturer at the university and supervised there as part of the newly created program " Producing performance," the area of performance.