Radio presenter and jazz musician Marc Van den Hoof has passed away

Marc Van den Hoof, jazz musician, former radio presenter and father of Adriaan Van den Hoof, has died at the age of 78 after an illness. This was confirmed by the family.

Van den Hoof started as a radio producer at Radio 1 in the late 1970s, and switched to Radio 2 in the 1980s. He made the popular programs Crime time in The big warehousesin which he playfully investigated how things exactly fit together. But his legacy is inextricably linked to jazz.

He made jazz programs for Klara such as Come sunday in Jazz. He also played saxophone in the band Jazz Lab, with which he even made it to Jazz Bilzen. He also taught jazz history for a long time at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, helped organize Jazz Middelheim and regularly wrote essays about it in music magazines. He collected a selection of these in the book Double bill.

Van den Hoof’s warm voice, which son Adriaan regularly lovingly imitated in his theatre shows, was a piece of radio history. He retired in 2011. In July, Adriaan told this newspaper that his father was not doing well. Van den Hoof leaves behind a wife and four children.(god, bpr)