Fred Van Hove

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.
Van Hove studied musical theory, harmony and piano in Belgium.|title=Biography|last=Kelsey|first=Chris|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=30 June 2009}} He began an association with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann in 1966, playing on his early quartet and... meer