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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.
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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