Jack van Poll

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Jack van Poll (born November 29, 1934 in Roosendaal , North Brabant province ) is a Dutch jazz musician ( pianist , tenor saxophonist , arranger and composer ), also a club owner and music producer.

Live and act

Van Poll started playing the piano at the age of four; After the war he began - influenced by V-discs and radio broadcasts of American soldiers transmitter AFN - for Bebop to care. As early as 1946 he performed with his trio The Rose Valley’s at a jazz competition in Amsterdam. As an autodidact, he first turned to the soprano saxophone ; initially Sidney Bechet was his role model. He studied at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal. On the tenor saxophone he turned to cool jazz . He became known as a pianist in the style of Oscar Peterson and in the 1950s accompanied Americans such as Don Byas , Ben Webster , Johnny Griffin , Clark Terry , Tony Scott , Ted Curson and Buddy DeFranco touring Holland and Belgium . As a tenor saxophonist, he was a member of the Horst Richter Sextet , which appeared in 1956 at the Düsseldorf amateur festival. In the same year he recorded the album Piano Profiles as a pianist (alongside Ingfried Hoffmann , Horst Jankowski and Klaus Doldinger ) . After that he toured West Germany several times. At the Düsseldorf Festival, which was organized annually as a competition by the German Jazz Federation , he received first prize in 1962 and his Tree-oh (with drummer Dieter Flimm ) was awarded (as in the following year) as "best orchestra in modern style". In the late 1960s and early 1970s he led a trio (with Mary Hehuat and Ruud Pronk , later John Engels ), with whom he recorded several albums. Etienne Verschueren also brought him in 1970 for recordings with the BRT Radio Jazz Orkest , which were released as an album ( Injacktion ). In the late 1970s he founded his own September Jazz Club in Antwerp ; 1984 the label September Jazz Records . In 1985 he toured with the Lionel Hampton Band and made his first guest appearance in New York City as an accompanist for Dee Dee Bridgewater . In the 1980s, Hein van de Geyn and Dré Pallemaerts and Red Mitchell and Ed Thigpen formed the rhythm section on his recordings . He and his trio have also accompanied numerous singers such as Leddy Wessel, Dee Daniels, Lils Mackintosh, Deborah Brown , Mark Murphy and David Linx on their recordings. He also worked with Jan Verwey , Spike Robinson and Stacy Rowles . In addition to his activities as a musician, composer and songwriter, he had his own radio program and writes for the Flemish jazz magazine Jazz Mozaiek . From 1995 he lived with his wife Trudy near Cape Town , where he performed with Winston Mankunku and Judith Sepuma, in Belgium since 2003.

Discographic notes

  • Hijackin ' ( Decca Records , 1969; with Mary Hehuat, Ruud Pronk)
  • Cat's Groove (September Records, 1988; with Red Mitchell, Ed Thigpen and Philip Catherine )
  • Just Friends (Live at the Crypt) (September Records, 2014; with Hein van de Geyn)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Dieter Fränzel , Jazz AGe Wuppertal (ed.): Sounds Like Whoopataal. Wuppertal in the world of jazz. Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-466-2 , pp. 86, 131