Jack Van Poll Biography

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Jack van Poll was born in 1934 in Roosendaal, Holland. He started playing piano at the age of four.
After the liberation of the Second World War in 1945, he discovered the first Bebop tunes on V-discs and on the American Forces Network Channel. With his teen age trio "The Rose Valley's", he took part in the Dutch Jazz Competition in Amsterdam in 1946. From the early Fifties on, he backed up single artists from the U.S.A., who performed in Holland and Belgium, like
Don Byas, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Tony Scott, Ted Curson, Buddy DeFranco and many others. In the late seventies he opened the "September Jazz Club" in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1984 he founded the "September Jazz Records" label. He joined the Lionel Hampton band on their East Coast Summer tour in 1985 and made his debut in Manhattan
with Dee Dee Bridgewater that same year. He performed at many International Jazz Festivals; Antibes, Pori, Prague, JVC Jazz Festival NYC, Cork, San Sebastian, Grahamstown, NSJF The Hague, Vienna, Comblain La Tour, Cracow, Berlin, Milano and Zurich. Apart from playing piano and tenor sax, he composes, writes lyrics, presents his weekly radio program, teaches music,
and is Editor for The Belgian Magazine "Jazz Mozaiek", writes Film Music and supports young musical talents.

	.............................................................. Jack van Poll was born in 1934 in Roosendaal, Holland. He started playing piano at the age of four. After the liberation of the Second World War in 1945, he discovered the first Bebop tunes on V-discs and on the American Forces Network Channel. With his teen age trio "The Rose Valley's", he took part in the Dutch Jazz Competition in Amsterdam in 1946. From the early Fifties on, he backed up single artists from the U.S.A., who performed in Holland and Belgium, like Don Byas, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Tony Scott, Ted Curson, Buddy DeFranco and many others. In the late seventies he opened the "September Jazz Club" in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1984 he founded the "September Jazz Records" label. He joined the Lionel Hampton band on their East Coast Summer tour in 1985 and made his debut in Manhattan with Dee Dee Bridgewater that same year. He performed at many International Jazz Festivals; Antibes, Pori, Prague, JVC Jazz Festival NYC, Cork, San Sebastian, Grahamstown, NSJF The Hague, Vienna, Comblain La Tour, Cracow, Berlin, Milano and Zurich. Apart from playing piano and tenor sax, he composes, writes lyrics, presents his weekly radio program, teaches music, and is Editor for The Belgian Magazine "Jazz Mozaiek", writes Film Music and supports young musical talents.

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	"His playing has a tight bounce and muscular wit that cracks open the clichés encasing some of the standards, he makes them sound fresh as if he had just discovered them." Regina Hackett, Seattle Post Intellinger. "Jack van Poll s'est montre digne de son compère Red Mitchell, ce qui n'est pas a la portée du premier venu." Paul Benkimoun, Jazz Magazine "What a great day in my book, for musicianship, performance and feeling for fellow artist. Jack is top of the Poll." Peter Everett, Evening Herald, Port Elisabeth "Tirons lui tout de suite un grand coup de chapeau, Jack van Poll a conquis ses lauriers avec une mention particulièrement brillante." Carlos De Raditzky. L'Express "Im modernen Still belegt Jack van Poll unangefochten den ersten Platz. Technisch wie musikalisch, verflochten mit einer Fulle eigener Ideen, war er der herausragende moderne Solist." Hans Albrecht Pitzke, Rheinische Post Ons lijkt het bepaald geen appetijtelijke combinatie, maar pianist Jack Van Poll is dus een Antwerpse Nederlander. Breeddenkend als we zijn, zetten we onze vooroordelen tegenover zowel Sinjoren als Noorderburen even opzij, en dan moeten we toegeven dat de man meer dan behoorlijke adelbrieven kan voorleggen. ZONE O9, Gent Jack Van Poll has been a steady factor in the Dutch jazz scene for five decades now. His album "Hi Jackin'" on Phillips (1968) has for a long time been Rainer Truby's best kept secret in his dj-sets all over the world, because on thgis album the Fender Rhodes sound that characterizes the work of Kruder & Dorfmeister is ubiquitous. Van Poll, born in 1934 in Roosendaal, saw this album as a one-time experiment. None of his other albums fit the rare groove concept, though his achievements in jazz circles as a keyboardist, composer & bandleader are unmistakable. www.dutchraregroove.nl "Dutch pianist Jack van Poll is a boisterous soloist with a straightforward approach, retaining the original colours within the mainstream concept of his playing." John S. Wilson, The New York Times "I had to look twice before I believed this Dutch cat was white." Dizzy Gillespie.


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