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Fred Van Hove

Fred Van Hove is credited on 177 releases across 40 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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177

Pressings credited

40

Albums

7

Decades active

1

In collections

Biography

Fred Van Hove (19 February 1937 – 13 January 2022) was a Belgian jazz musician and a pioneer of European free jazz. He was a pianist, accordionist, church organist, and carillonist, an improviser and a composer. In the 1960s and 1970s he performed with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and drummer Han Bennink.

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Credited work

177 releases · 40 albums · active 1968–2025

  • Performance · 366
  • Other credits · 46
  • Production · 13
  • Engineering · 2

Studios: Lila Eule · Akademie der Künste, Berlin · Tonstudio Bauer · Rhenus Studio

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink
  • Various
  • Peter Brötzmann Octet
  • Van Hove
  • The Peter Brötzmann Sextet
  • Radu Malfatti
  • Steve Lacy
  • Penderecki

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