Jasper van 't Hof


Jasper van 't Hof is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard player.
Van 't Hof was born in Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands, and began studying piano at the age of five. He played in jazz bands at school, and by the age of 19 was playing at jazz festivals with drummer Pierre Courbois. In 1969, he became a member of Courbois' early European jazz rock band Association P.C., with German guitarist Toto Blanke. As part of Piano Conclave he played with pianists George Gruntz, Joachim Kühn, Wolfgang Dauner, and Keith Jarrett.
In 1974, he founded Pork Pie and teamed up with Philip Catherine, Charlie Mariano, Aldo Romano, and Jean-François Jenny Clark. He joined the band Eyeball with saxophonist Bob Malach and violinist Zbigniew Seifert. He had two bands: Face to Face with Danish bassist Bo Stief and saxophonist Ernie Watts and Pili Pili, featuring African singer Angelique Kidjo. He played keyboards with Archie Shepp, although he is best known for his solo piano playing.
For All About Jazz, John Kelman wrote: "Transitorys high point is the two-part title track. Orchestral in scope despite limited instrumentation, Van't Hof's strength as a textural player, comfortably blending impressionistic writing with freer concerns, is in full force."
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Discography

As leader

Eye Ball The Door Is Open The Selfkicker However Flowers Allover Fairytale The Wink to My Female Slave Live in Montreux Visitors Balloons Pili-Pili Hoomba-Hoomba Jakko Meditation Be in Two Minds Solo Piano Live 88 Hotel Babo Jazzbuhne Berlin '80 Dinner for Two Blau Stolen Moments Get Down The Prague Concert At the Concertgebouw Boogaloo Dance Jazz Live 95 Face to Face Blue Corner Freezing Screens Tomorrowland Nomansland Un Mondo Illusorio Incwadi Yothando Un Incontro Illusorio Brutto Tempo Ballads of Timbuktu Axioma NeverNeverLand The Yellow House Live at Quasimodo Pseudopodia Pangramm Ukuba Noma Unkungabi Whybecause OEuvre On the Move No Hard Shoulder
  • ''Three of a Kind''

As sideman

With Charlie MarianoTea for Four Plum Island Innuendo The Great Concert
With others