Ernst van't Hoff

Ernst van't Hoff , actually Johan Ernst van Hof, (born July 13, 1908 in Zandvoort , † May 16, 1955 in Brussels ) was a Dutch jazz and entertainment musician (trumpeter, pianist, band leader).

Live and act

After completing his musical training, Van't Hoff worked as a professional musician in various orchestras in the Netherlands, Belgium and Great Britain in the 1920s. In 1930 he founded his own combo in Birmingham . From 1936 he worked as a pianist in the radio dance orchestra of the AVRO , and in 1936 he played with Robert De Kers and His Cabaret Kings. In 1940 van't Hoff received a record deal with Deutsche Grammophon . With his own dance orchestra, with which Coco Schumann also played for a short time , he toured Germany and made numerous records. Van't Hoff was heavily influenced by Glenn Miller . His big band was one of the best European swing orchestras , especially at concerts . The orchestra's music, which was broadcast on the radio in 1942, was branded as "totally jazzed up" in SD reports . The signature melody of the orchestra "Everything will be fine" contained the melodic figure with which Radio London introduced or introduced its programs. In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 1936 and 1944.

In 1944, van't Hoff was targeted by the Gestapo , arrested several times and taken into so-called protective custody for a long period of time . To avoid the Nazis' stalking, he moved to Belgium. In 1945 he founded a new orchestra (with 36 musicians) in Brussels, which played in a victory parade in Brussels after Belgium was liberated by the Allies. In the next few years he went on tour with his ensemble, which at times also included Ack van Rooyen (1947–1950) and the entire Boptet by Rob Pronk (1951); he also had appearances on BRT television .

Discographic notes

The great German dance orchestras (1941–1942)
Manuela
Ernst Van't Hoff & Dick Willebrandts and their Orchestras featuring Jan de Vries Here We Are (Hep Records)

Lexical entries

Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Individual evidence

^ Date of birth and death according to Wölffer Jazz in Germany . In Wim van Eyle (Ed.) Jazz , Het Spectrum 1978 the 17.5. given as the date of death
↑ Coco Schumann, The Ghetto Swinger: A Jazz Legend Tells. Munich: dtv 1997, p. 48
^ Horst H. Lange Jazz in Germany. The German Jazz Chronicle up to 1960 Hildesheim: Olms 1996, p. 139f.
↑ Martin Lücke Jazz in Totalitarianism: A comparative analysis of the politically motivated handling of jazz during the time of National Socialism and Stalinism. Münster: Lit-Verlag 2004, p. 97 f.
^ Reginald Rudorf Jazz in the Cologne Zone : Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1964, p. 22

↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 16, 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Hoff, Ernst van't
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoff, Johan Ernst van (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zandvoort
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1955
Place of death	Brussels

[1] Date of birth and death according to Wölffer Jazz in Germany . In Wim van Eyle (Ed.) Jazz , Het Spectrum 1978 the 17.5. given as the date of death

[2] Coco Schumann, The Ghetto Swinger: A Jazz Legend Tells. Munich: dtv 1997, p. 48

[3] Horst H. Lange Jazz in Germany. The German Jazz Chronicle up to 1960 Hildesheim: Olms 1996, p. 139f.

[4] Martin Lücke Jazz in Totalitarianism: A comparative analysis of the politically motivated handling of jazz during the time of National Socialism and Stalinism. Münster: Lit-Verlag 2004, p. 97 f.

[5] Reginald Rudorf Jazz in the Cologne Zone : Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1964, p. 22

[lord-6] Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 16, 2016)