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Conversations (2022)

"The title says it all: 'Conversations'. Jasper van't Hof, Paul Heller, Martin Gjakonovski and Bodek Janke have intensive musical conversations, they talk amicably, wittily, informally, but never without commitment. You listen to them as if you were listening to a confidential conversation that you can't, and don't have to, avoid: The Inspirational Conversation is made to be shared and enjoyed. Paul Heller was already listening to Jasper van't Hof's records when he was young, 'especially his albums with Bob Malach and Charlie Mariano are still enormously important to me to this day'. They played together for the first time at a birthday concert for Ack van Rooyen in 2013. Right from the start, it was important to Heller to emphasize Van't Hof's compositional side in particular: 'His pieces have an emotionality that you don't normally get doesn't know.' This is exactly what characterizes the first album by the Jasper van't Hof/Paul Heller Group." (MVDshop}