Jasper Van ‘t Hof, age 50, is a busy person. His life and mind turn around music in many formats in combination with a broad social and political awareness. The release of his solo-CD “Live at the Concertgebouw” (CHR70010) made us realize that Jasper is a unique person to work with. His open minded, spontaneous, explosive and demanding approach to things is characteristic of Jasper. It makes him unique both as an artist and as a person. Challenge is therefor proud to have signed an exclusive contract with Jasper to exploit his artistic skills and musical experience for a minimum of five years. “Tomorrowland” is the first fruit of this long term plan.
Jasper has travelled and performed all over the world. He can be regarded as an Ambassador for the “European” approach of jazz. There is no talented Dutch musician who can’t say they either have played or have wanted to play with Jasper. He has been much sought after and has hardly ever disappointed anyone. Therefore it is strange that he is even more famous outside of his own country. Maybe it’s because Jasper doesn’t like to be labeled and can’t be put into a specific slot. This time he likes to give us a hand: VOJ. It is a perfect reflection of Jasper van ‘t Hof - a man eager to try anything, mixing the old with the new, combining east, west, south and north, ignoring fashions and fads, and eventually coming up with music that’s as vibrant and vital as jazz is supposed to be.
In the 70’s he was part of the famous group “Pork Pie”, with guitarist Philip Catherine and tenor saxophonist Charlie Mariano. With “Pork Pie” he met J.F. Yennie-Clarke, which led to a quartet with Bob, JF and Aldo Romano. Since then he has continued to working on and off with Bob and JF.
Jasper has also worked with Archie Shepp, Kenny Wheeler, Alphonse Mouzon, Dave Friedman. JF worked with many, many legends: Keith Jarreth, Don Cherry, Gato Barbieri, Pharoah Sanders, Martial Solal, Chet Baker a.o. Bob Malach is a much in demand tenorist. Besides playing with legendary popstars like Madonna, Stevie Wonder and Steve Miller he performed with Mike Stern, Stanley Clarke, Joe Zawinul and most of the stars of today’s New York scene.

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", "Pent-Up House", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins was born in New York City to parents from the United States Virgin Islands. The youngest of three siblings, he grew up in central Harlem and on Sugar Hill, Harlem, receiving his first alto saxophone at the age of seven or eight. He attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High School and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He has said that a concert by Frank Sinatra at his high school, accompanied by a plea for racial harmony, changed his life. Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1946. During his high school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor.

Bruno Spoerri (b. 1935) played as a saxophonist in various jazz groups as a student, and from 1956 with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg. From 1957 to 1975 he was a member of the Metronome Quintet and the quintet of Remo Rau and Hans Kennel. From 1964 he composed for commercials, and from 1967 freelanced as composer and sound engineer. He made early experiments with electrified saxophone, the Ondes Martenot and EMS synthesizers. He cooperated with Hans Deyssenroth and Joël Vandroogenbroeck (Brainticket).

Spoerri was musical director of the Zurich Jazz Festival between 1970 and 1973 and again from 1975 to 1977. For a long time he played with Albert Mangelsdorff, Reto Weber, Christy Doran and Ernst Reijseger. Touring has taken him to the USA, Japan, India and Ethiopia, among other places. He’s also created music for commercials, documentaries and feature films (including Markus Imhoof’s “Tauwetter”, Rolf Lyssy’s “Teddy Bär”, H.U. Schlumpf’s “Der Kongress der Pinguine”). Spoerri is editor and co-author of the works “Jazz in Switzerland - History and Stories” (Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005) and “Music from Nothing” (Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2010) on the history of electroacoustic music in Switzerland. He works with interactive computer systems that give him the opportunity to enter into musical communication with his devices. Spoerri worked as a lecturer at the music academies in Zurich, Biel and Lucerne. In 2015 he received the Golden Medal of Honor from the Canton of Zurich, and in 2017 the Swiss Jazz Award for his life’s work.