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Jasper van't Hof - HotLips (NL/D/B/UK) News | In General | Photos | Concerts | Concert-Booking and Tech-Rider In General JASPER VAN´T HOF´s new band project, including three horns, bass and drums, is named: HotLips Their first CD was recorded in summer/early fall 2005 and the first concert tour followed in January 2006. For the summer/fall concert season the band was invited to several festivals all over Europe The line up of the band is: Jasper van´t Hof - keyboards, piano Nicolas Fiszman - bass Jean Philip Fanfant- drums Tony Lakatos - sax Christian Kappe - trumpet Annie Whitehead - trombone After having played with Pili Pili for twenty years, JASPER VAN´T HOF embarked on his new band project HotLips which features wind instruments and has no African musicians. The idea for the new project was born on the Pili Pili anniversary tour: the three-man wind section from HotLips got together with JASPER and had so much fun playing that they realized that this will be the beginning of a new project rather than just a one-time jam session. Once again there developed something new, though the initiating musicians have already been closely connected to JASPER VAN´T HOF for quite a long time; their music simultaneously turns to the past and to the future and is based on the experience of JASPER´s band projects such as Pork Pie or Catherine-Mariano-Van't Hof. But composing songs for three wind instruments was an entirely new experience and a challenge for him,. 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 throughout inspired by JASPER VAN´T HOF. The attractiveness of the new ensemble lies in their electro-acoustic concept, which features powerful and sophisticated wind parts alongside lyrical sections, accumulated with solos that sometimes are funky, sometimes deeply expressive and complex. HotLips´music also can be traced back to jazz, rock, funk and to modern sound colours. Following line up is in plan: Jasper van´t Hof (NL)- keyboards, piano Nicolas Fizman (B) / Frank IItt (D) - bass Jean Philip Fanfant)- drums Tony Lakatos (HUN)- sax Christian Kappe (D)- trumpet Annie Whitehead ( UK) - trombone Review We didn't expect the Dutch keyboarder and pianist JASPER VAN´T HOF and head of the new band project HotLips to break with his musical past so radically. After VAN´T HOF spent 20 years with his successful ethno line-up Pili Pili, his new sextet promises a stronger focus on jazz and fusion formats. The band has now performed their latest album at Schlachthof, Bremen. VAN´T HOF probably wasn’t thinking of Kansas City jazz trumpeter and blues player Oran Page – far better known by his nickname "HotLips" – when choosing the name for his band, but a distant link is existing: during the 1930s "Hotlips" Page was revered as well as feared for his striking growl trumpet and energetic riffs, which could set any session alight. And that is what makes the current HotLips line-up so distinctive: three of the band members also possess the torrid mandibles in question, namely trombonist Annie Whitehead, trumpeter Christian Kappe (also very well-known in Bremen´s jazz scene), and master saxophonist Tony Lakatos. The band does not copy historic jazz styles, however, prefering a far more contemporary fusion sound. Combining jazz with rock dates back to the 80s, but its potential still seems to be far from exhausted. JASPER VAN´T HOF brings all his musical experience to his arrangements, combining jazz idiom with minimalist repetition and harmonious recurring melodies reminiscent of Erik Satie. Furthermore some phrases he has composed for the winds are influenced by baroque sounds. To this he adds his excellent fusion keyboard parts, introducing much of the versatility of his ethno-jazz experience, but also allowing his musicians room for brilliant excursions into improvisation. On the HotLips album the compositions sound mature, but a certain spark of vitality seems to be lacking – the Schlachthof - performance made up for what was missing. JASPER VAN´T HOF benefited from a highly experienced and very exciting rhythm section. Nicolas Fiszman (bass guitar) and Jean Philip Fanfant (drums) are the perfect foundation for a keyboarder and his three wind players. The faster tracks are full of energy, the quiter passages illuminated very sensitively. Otherwise VAN´T HOF loves to perform and always holds surprises on the keys ready. All in all, a fabulous concert by a fabulous band! WESERKURIER – BREMEN 21.0.1.2006 by Christian Emigholz Discography Neverneverland (2005) JARO 4260-2 / Jasper van't Hofs HotLips Live at Quasimodo (2007) JARO 4285-2 / Jasper van't Hofs HotLips JASPER VAN'T HOF @ Myspace

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