The great pianist Jack van Poll in a solo concert with anecdotes from a life dedicated to jazz.

Jack van Poll was born in 1934 in Roosendaal, Holland. He started playing the piano at the age of four. After the liberation of the Second World War in 1945, he discovered the first Bebop tunes on the American Forces Network Channel. With his teenage 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 Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Tony Scott and many others. In the late seventies he opened his "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.
Apart from playing the piano and tenor sax, he composes, writes lyrics,
presents his weekly radio program, teaches music, is editor for The Belgian Magazine
"Jazz Mozaiek", writes film music and supports young musical talent.

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"I had to look twice before I believed this Dutch cat was white" ( Dizzy Gillespie).

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