JASPER VAN'T HOF was born in Enschede, Holland on June 30, 1947. The child of a jazz trumpeter and a classically trained singer and pianist, his great interest in music became evident at an early age. The groundwork was laid with private piano lessons. At the age of fourteen he wrote his first compositions and became increasingly interested in jazz. His parents would have liked to send him to a conservatory, but JASPER VAN'T HOF preferred to play live. At nineteen he was already participating in various jazz festivals and raking in prizes.
The year 1984 marked the founding of the Afro-European formation PILI-PILI. Its first album was a major success, above all in the dance and pop scene. The legendary fifteen-minute title track "Pili Pili", which gave the band its name, resounded from the approximately 160,000 copies sold of this firstling, raising it to the status of a cult number. VAN'T HOF worked primarily in Germany, due perhaps to the proximity of the border, perhaps also to his marriage to a German woman of Hamelin.
PILI-PILI's success has taken VAN'T HOF on eighteen concert tours to date; the band appears on stage in Germany twenty to thirty times a year. PILI-PILI was a stepping stone for Angelique Kidjo, now an internationally successful ethnopop singer who worked with JASPER VAN'T HOF in his band for four years and recorded a number of CDs with him. The members of PILI-PILI include Marlon Klein (Berlin), also a musician in the ethno band Dissidenten, the bassist Frank Itt of Hamburg and the trumpeter Eric Vloeimans. The band is VAN'T HOF's most continuous project and celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2004.
After twenty years of Pili Pili, Jasper van't Hof embarked on his new band project "Hot Lips," which featured wind instruments and no African musicians. They first got the idea for it on the Pili Pili anniversary tour, where the three-man wind section from Hot Lips got together and had so much fun playing that they realized it would definitely become a whole new project. Once again there's something new, initiated together with musicians who have long been closely connected to Jasper van't Hof; the music looks back and ahead simultaneously, and is based on the experience of his band projects such as Pork Pie or Catherine-Mariano-Van't Hof. But composing for three wind instruments was an entirely new experience as well as a challenge.
"Hot Lips" provide a convincing mix of varied and inspired compositions, attractive tunes, improvisations, sonic surprises, and European chamber jazz - not American, not Scandinavian, and inspired throughout by Jasper van't Hof.
16.01 21:00 im K C Netwerk in Aalst www.kraak.net
17.01 21:00 Villa Den Haag,
18.01 21:00 Occii Amsterdam www.occii.org
19.01 20:30 Steinbruch 47057 Duisburg Lotharstraße 318 www.cafe-steinbruch.com
20.01 20:00 ONE WORLD STATION 44879 Bochum Doktor-C.-Otto-Straße 137
Bahnhof Dahlhausen
One of my first gigs as a so called JazzMusician I do as support for you... nice to remember....it was great for me....and still is best wishes Andreas Kaling
Dear friends !
Our best wishes for a Merry Christmas.
All the best for 2010.
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We are happy to announce the release of our first Solo Jazz Piano CD. Enjoy 3 pianist from New York, Japan and Germany playing live at the 1st International Jazz Solo Piano Festival 2009.
Orders: www.jazzsolopianofestival.com or search me on iTunes
Also watchout for the next Festival to come in 2010.
Ich freue mich sehr, dich endlich mal wiederzusehen!!! Hatte schon mal nach dir gesucht...aber wohl irgendwas falsch gemacht? Erinnere mich immer wieder gern, besonders als du in den 80'ern den ersten Wave auf der Messe gespielt hast! War echt ne super Zeit...
Hallo Jasper Wir kennen uns durch deine Zusammenarbeit mit der damaligen Göttinger Bigband Unisono. Ich wäre so gern zu eurem Konzert ins Theaterstübchen gekommen, aber ich bin leider krank... sehr schade. Na ja, dann bis zum nächsten Mal, Gruß Thomas
Hi Jasper....just saying hello.... Still going strong after all those years......I know your music since the 70ies! Nice new tracks here....and I'm looking forward to see you again in A'dam... All the best, J.J.
Hi Jasper, thanks for the add and friendship. I love to remember your wonderful concert in the Jazzkeller Krefeld at it's 50th anniversary last year. I hope you will be our guest again in the near future. Best wishes, Karin
hi Jasper thx for the add i am an old time fan of your work. and i remember a workshop in Remscheid a long time ago, where your harmony classes were extremly funny
hoi Jasper, Je bent lekker bezig, zo te horen! Ik ben een oude fan van je – echt oud; ik ken je nog van de tijds met Philip Catherine en John Lee en Gerry Brown. In de tussentijd heb ik zelf leren bassen. Ik heb trouwens ook nog een bandje gehad met Izaline Callister, Pau Brasil geheten. Groet Philip Baumgarten
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