Jack van Poll

Dutch jazz pianist, composer and arranger (born in Roosendaal, the Netherlands, on 29 November 1934 - died in Antwerp, Belgium, on 4 December 2022). He started playing piano at the age of four, after the Second World War he discovered the first bebop tunes on V-discs and on the American Forces Network Channel. With his teenage trio "The Rose Valley's", he took part in the Dutch Jazz Competition in Amsterdam in 1946. From the early fifties on, he backed up touring artists from the USA performing in Holland and Belgium, like Don Byas, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Tony Scott, Ted Curson and Buddy DeFranco. In the late seventies he moved to Antwerp (Belgium) where he opened the September Jazz Club and founded the September (3) label.