1 Blue Balls ( Krantz, Wayne / Malach, Bob / Fizman, N. / Allaert, P.) 05:46
2 Blauklang (for Ernst W. Nay) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 04:57
3 "U" (for Francis Picabia) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 03:26
4 Before Birth (for Joseph Beuys) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 05:00
5 Blue Corner (for Bettina Blohm) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 04:08
6 Two Brothers (for Gilbert + George) ( traditional) 03:28
7 Gog (for Emil Schumacher) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 04:46
8 L'Epoque Bleue (for Yves Klein) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 03:13
9 Another Night in Tunesia (for George Baselitz) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 03:51
10 Icarus (for Henry Matisse) ( van't Hof, Jasper) 02:59
11 Fate (Subo) (for Konrad Klapheck) ( Krantz, Wayne) 02:54
12 Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair ( van't Hof, Jasper)

Jasper van’t Hof – piano & keyboards
Bob Malach – tenor saxophone
Wayne Krantz – guitar
Nicolas Fiszman – bass
Philipp Allaert – drums

BLUE - it’s more than the colour. It’s music too.

Goethe in his "Farbenlehre" associated blue with infinity and saw it as the colour of transcendence. Jung associated blue with the vertical, the blue sky above and the blue ocean below, and sees a correspondence with the unconscious. Yves Klein postulated Monochrome IKB (International Klein Blue) as the colour of the universe and hoped to use it to sensitize die whole planet. At about the same time, Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, looked at us from outer space and reported : "The Earth is blue."

BLUE is also a group of musicians that enjoy the hell of making music together. Five guys on a mission to catch blue. JASPER VAN’T HOF from Enschede in Holland has become a most accomplished performer on acoustic piano and synthesizer. He is a member of the European elite of keyboard artists. He is also known to a larger audience by his work with Pili-Pili.

BOB MALACH comes from Philadelphia, where he got early experience working with Lou Rawis, Patti LaBelle and the Stylistics, among others. Bob moved to New York in 1976. He joined Stevie Wonder’s Band in 1980 and worked with the singer for 5 years. Since 1987 he recorded and toured with the Steve Miller Band. Today he is one of the most wanted saxophone players in the New Yorker Scene.

WAYNE KRANTZ comes from New York too. One of the new young guitar wizzards in the US. A frequent player with Carla Bley and Lennie Stern.

NICOLAS FISZMAN, the bass player, and PHILIPPE ALLAERT, the drummer are both from Belgium where they made themselves popular as the "groove brothers" in the HipHop Scene of Brussels. They also play with Victor Lazlo and Pili-Pili.

BLUE is a musical homage to 11 contemporary painters who themselves created important works of art based on the mythology of blue. YVES KLEIN, SAM FRANCIS, ERNST W. NEY, JOSEPH BEUYS, GEORG BASELITZ, GILBERT & GEORGE, HENRY MATISSE, FRANCIS PICABIA, EMIL SCHUMACHER, KONRAD KLAPHECK und BETTINA BLOHM.

BLUE is a musical experience for people who like to listen to Miles Davis and Sting but not necessarily the Beasty Boys. The recordings where made in Amsterdam and New York City. ---actmusic.com

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1 	Kusini 	
2 	Three Doors 	
3 	Face To Face 	
4 	Zaire 	
5 	Il Piacere 	
6 	As Well 	
7 	Echoes 	
8 	Krise 	
9 	You There

Bass – Bo Stief
Drums – Aldo Romano
Piano – Jasper Van't Hof
Saxophone – Ernie Watts

Jasper van 't Hof (born 30 June 1947) 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 was playing in jazz bands in school, and by the age of 19 was playing at jazz festivals with drummer Pierre Courbois. In 1969, he became member of Courbois' early European jazz rock group Association P.C. (together with German guitarist Toto Blanke.) In the project Piano Conclave he played with such piano giants as George Gruntz, Joachim Kühn, Wolfgang Dauner and Keith Jarrett.

In 1974, he founded Pork Pie and teamed up with Philip Catherine (guitar,) Charlie Mariano (saxophone,) Aldo Romano (drums,) and Jean-François Jenny Clark (bass.) Other bands that he contributed to soon followed, including Eyeball which included saxophonist Bob Malach and the late violinist Zbigniew Seifert. He had two bands; Face To Face which is composed of the Danishbassist Bo Stief and the saxophonist Ernie Watts and his crossover combo Pili Pili featuring, among others, African singer Angelique Kidjo.

Van't Hof is one of the most active jazz musicians on the European scene. During the course of his career, he has been at the keyboard for Archie Shepp and many others, although he is best known for his exceptional solo piano playing. ---John Kelman, allaboutjazz.com

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1 Bax
2 Viber snake
3 Eye-ball 1 (piano solo)       play
4 Hyrax
5 Schwester Johanna
6 Laur
7 One leg missing               play
8 Eye-ball 2 (piano solo)
9 The rev

Jasper van't Hof - fender rhodes, piano, organ
Zbigniew Seifert - violin; 
Wim Overgaauw - guitar, electric guitar, banjo
John Lee - bass, electric bass; 
Jerry Brown - drums, percussion

Here's a second Jasper van't Hof album. While this one has a couple piano solos, unlike "A Wink To My Female Slave," this album finds Dutch keyboardist van't Hof much more in fusion territory. It's a bit of an international confab: a Polish jazz violinist, a Dutch guitarist, and American funk/rockers John Lee and Gerry Brown. Seifert, like van't Hof, was an MPS regular, though he has far more sideman appearances than his one MPS solo album and his more commercial US funk/fusion solo album which is worth seeking out. Funksters John Lee & Gerry Brown had a string of Blue Note and Columbia albums but seem to have also been steady guest players on the European fusion scene. If you like that European progessive jazz/fusion scene you'll like this album. Thanks to Brown and Lee it has a bit of a funky edge; and thanks to van't Hof's musicianship and the balance here between acoustic and electric piano it's not all wanky like say, Chick Corea's Return To Forever. A very enjoyable listen.

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