Jan Gunnar Hoff Group feat MARIUS NESET performed at the National Jazzscene in Oslo on November 15, 2025. Line up: Marius Neset, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Gary Husband, Per Mathisen. Photos: Francesco Saggio.

Jan Gunnar Hoff Group will perform a gig in Oslo with Marius Neset, at Nasjonal Jazzscene, November 15 – 2025. Line up: Marius Neset – saxsophones, Jan Gunnar Hoff – keyboards, Per Mathisen – bass, Gary Husband – drums. Link to venue.

Jan Gunnar Hoff´s project “Vaapstenjeanoe – Big River” went down on August 6-7, 2025 with a big concert performance at Stormen concert hall in Bodø and the following recording session for Grammy-winning producer Morten Lindberg and his label 2L. Among the performers were Arve Henriksen, Mats Eilertsen, Finn Sletten and Helgeland Sinfonietta conducted by Nicholas Carthy.

Jan Gunnar Hoff was interviewed recently about the newly released album “Voyage” by NRK, the national Norwegian broadcasting. Participants in the talks were also Gary Husband and the head of Losen records, Odd Gjelsnes.

https://radio.nrk.no/serie/jazzklubben/sesong/202506/MKMU06002225

The new Jan Gunnar Hoff Group-album with his all star European line up:  Nguyen Le, Gary Husband and Per Mathisen, was released May 2, 2025 on Losen Records (Odd Gjelsnes). Cover photo by Kjersti Holst.

Jan Gunnar Hoff´s tune “Autumn Breeze”, performed on the album “Northwest” by the ensemble “Hoff Somsen Lindholm” has passed 1 mill streams on Apple Music. Hoff´s composition has made it into Apple Music Jazz playlists, which contributes to the streaming success.

Jan Gunnar Hoff´s new work “Heartlands” was premiered December 20, 2024, in the Bodø Cathedral, with an audience of 600 attending. The local reviews were effusive (Rune Slyngstad, Avisa Nordland):

“Powerful, sacred, melancholic and meaningful. The work Heartlands is gold”.  Local review (Norwegian): 

The theme for this new composition  is nature, climate, environment and not least: ourselves in this perspective. Why are we up here in the north, what does nature mean to us, what can’t we do without? The issue has been brought up to date in recent years with large projects that threaten to turn our mountains and nature into industrial areas, i.e. wind power and wind turbines. The untouched nature becomes the subject of speculation and major interventions, something we have to react to. This scenario is the background for the title “Heartlands”, which means: “an area that a nation cannot lose without losing itself”. Subtitles:

1. Dawn
2. Heartlands
3. Earth alert
4. The words
5. Freedom
6. Heartlands II

Line up: Bodø cathedral choir, Karoline Åseng (vocal soloist), Børge Petersen-Øverleir (guitar),  Rune Arnesen (drums/perc), JGH (keys, piano, church organ), Gjermund Silset (bass).