Bill Shoemaker: Do any pianists still influence you?
Fred Van Hove: My biggest influences are the bells of Antwerp, which ring every quarter hour. So, I hear them more than anything else. To name one name, I would say Erroll Garner, because I think he did something to the sound of the piano, like Monk did and Teddy Wilson did and Fats Waller and Cecil Taylor. But now I would say Erroll Garner.
Fred Van Hove (1937 – 2022)
Entrevista a Fred Van Hove por Bill Shoemaker en Point Of Departure: https://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-31/PoD31PageOne.html
Fotografía por Cees Van de Ven en 2016.
Texto: © Bill Shoemaker, Point Of Departure
Fotografía: © Cees Van de Ven, 2016
