Jazz Articles about Jan Gunnar Hoff

About Jan Gunnar Hoff

Radio & Podcasts

Markus Reuter, Haasta, Jan Gunner Hoff, Hadrien Feraud and Antoine Fafard

by Len Davis
May 18, 2025

An Eclectic Journey Through Jazz, Rock, Fusion & Instrumental Firepower and dive into a genre-spanning set from jazz-rock and world fusion to instrumental prog. We open with German guitarist Markus Reuter and his edgy Truce 3 then head to Poland with the energetic Haasta and US fusionists Sons Of Ra. Guitarist Danielle Gottardo and The Hypersonic Factor bring bold prog flavours, while bassist Antoine Fafard and pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff with Gary Husband and Nguyen Le push deeper into fusion. ...

Album Review

Jan Gunnar Hoff: Fly North!

Read "Fly North!" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 9, 2014

Norwegian pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff has had the honor of being the first artist on Losen Records to release an album recorded at producer and label owner Odd Gjelsnes' studio Berxeta, in sunny Spain. It was fitting that the name of that album was called Berxeta (Losen Records, 2012), and its sound was influenced by the surroundings: a warm and eclectic brand of fusion with influence from bouncing Latin rhythms. However, Gunnar Hoff has never shunned his ...

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Album Review

Jan Gunnar Hoff: Magma

by John Kelman
February 19, 2010

Keyboardist Jan Gunnar Hoff may not have the international visibility of fellow keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft, but with a growing discography dating back to the mid-1990s and including, most recently, the powerfully fusion-esque Jungle City (Alessa, 2009), with fellow countryman/bassist Per Mathisen and ex-Weather Report percussionist/drummer Alex Acuna, that deserves to change. At the core of the eminently accessible yet equally deep Magma is a Norwegian posse that includes drummer Audun Kleive and bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr--two-thirds of guitarist Terje Rypdal's internationally ...