Pianist and composer. He was born in Enschede, Holland on June 30, 1947 a the child of a jazz trumpeter and a classically trained singer and pianist. At nineteen he was already participating in various jazz festivals and raking in prizes.

He celebrated his first great European success with the band Association P. C., founded in 1969 by van't Hof along with the Dutch drummer Pierre Courbois and the German guitarist Toto Blanke. The band produced a synthesis of jazz and rock and acclaimed as a sensation at the Berlin Jazztage of 1971.

Van't Hof belonged to the circle of jazz musicians interested in exploring the sound possibilities newly created by the electronic instrumentarium. This he undertook in a formation founded in 1973 with Charlie Mariano and Philip Catherine – Pork Pie. This group merged the technical-artistic virtuosity of jazz with the dynamic extroversion of rock. The band dissoluted in 1976 and underwent a revival in 1992 under the title Operanoia.

Despite solo performances, 70' and early 80' also witnessed a number of duo contacts with musicians like Archie Shepp, Manfred Schoof, Wolfgang Dauner, Zbigniew Seifert, Toto Blanke, Stu Martin, Alphonse Mouzon and Bob Malach.

The year 1984 marked the founding of the Afro-European formation Pili-Pili. Its first album was a major success, above all in the dance and pop scene. Approximately 160,000 copies of this firstling, was sold. Pili-Pili appears on stage in Germany twenty to thirty times a year. This group was a stepping stone for Angelique Kidjo, now an internationally successful ethnopop singer The members of Pili-Pili include Marion Klein, the bassist Frank Itt and the trumpeter Eric Vloeimans.

Jasper van't Hof recorded his first solo album, The self kicker, in 1976. In all he has published some seventy albums, almost exclusively with German record companies.

Van't Hof also plays the church organ and he has performed at well-known classical music festivals.