Go With the Wind

Product Description Now Jasper van't Hof and his long-time fellow traveller Tony Lakatos have teamed up to produce an album entitled 'Go with the Wind' featuring organ and saxophone. It is not the first time that this musician, who has so influenced European jazz, presented himself playing an organ. Already in 1998 van't Hof recorded his first CD on the church organ in the Italian town of Bonefro-Molise. He remembers he discovered this little church organ in Abruzzo, and was totally smitten by it. From then onwards Jasper van't Hof has provided impressive concerts on church organs. It therefore seemed high time to make a recording of his organ playing, and he chose to do it in duet form, with Tony Lakatos playing soprano and alto sax. The organ here is in the 800-year old church of Osterwick, and was built in the 19th century, with 3 manuals as well as footpedals. All the compositions are van't Hof originals in which the two master musicians take turns extemporizing and improvising. Both feel good that the organ doesn't sound at all 'churchy'. Rather, the oft-complex structures are solidly jazz-based, with the ethereal and sometimes elegiac saxophone musings of Tony Lakatos, the legendary Hungarian Roma virtuoso. About the Artist Jasper van't Hof was born on June 30, 1947 in Enschede, Holland. As the son of a jazz trumpet player and an opera singer, he found his love of music from an early age from his family. His fascination with the big, black piano at home emerged at about five years old. Further the foundation of the piano lessons which followed, he already started as a teenager to compose, he joined several school bands, and found the local jazzclub an excellent laboratory for his work. In 1969, together with guitarrist Toto Blanke and drummer Pierre Courbois, he founded the group 'Association P.C.', in which he shone bright as a virtuoso master of sounds. The band achieved an international breakthrough, and shortly thereafter found themselves among the top-ranked jazzscene employing electronic instruments to create the new sound aesthetic. In the same period, his Austrian colleague Joe Zawinul sailed aboard spaceship »Weather Report« through similar unexplored regions. In 1972, Jasper was voted Europe's leading synthesizer player. His band 'Pork Pie', together with Saxophonist Charile Mariano and guitarist Philip Catherine tested the boundaries of Jazz-Rock, in that they combined the technical virtuosity of the former with the extroverted character of the latter. For me still today, the highest goal a musician can aspire to, based on our unlimited 12 tones, is to express ourselves in free improvisations connected with the deepest experience of his instrument. In 1984 Jasper unveiled his most successful project called 'Pili Pili': a trance extravaganza with African drums, longer than 15-minutes, which made him an overnight sensation on the club scene. From the recording 'Hoomba Hoomba' (1985), the group was joined by Benin-Paris singer Angelique Kidjo, which turned out to become her springboard to her later international success.

1: Toto
2: Go With the Wind
3: Terminal Ararat
4: Makkunta
5: Formule E
6: Mirror of Broadway
7: A Stoic Dialogue
8: Blow Me Over the Highlands

Number of Discs: 1

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