{{Short description|Belgian pianist and composer}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jef Neve | image = jef-neve_2012.jpg | caption = At Aarhus Jazz Festival 2012 | image_size = 250 px | birth_name = | alias = | birth_place = Turnhout, Belgium | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|3|8|df=y}} | death_place = | death_date = | instrument = Piano | genre = Jazz, classical | occupation = Musician, composer | years_active = Early 2000s–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = [http://www.jefneve.com/ jefneve.com] | current_members = | past_members = }}
'''Jef Neve''' (born 8 March 1977) is a Belgian jazz and classical music pianist and composer.
==Life and career== Neve was born in Turnhout, Belgium.<ref name="Hope">Hope, Alan (22 July 2014) [http://www.flanderstoday.eu/current-affairs/face-flanders-jef-neve "Face of Flanders: Jef Neve"]. Flanders Today.</ref> By the age of 14 he was composing music and playing in bands.<ref name="Hope" /> He studied jazz and classical music at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven and graduated in 2000.<ref name="Hope" /><ref name="AM" /> Not much later, he worked as a piano teacher and took the then 12-year-old Seppe Gebruers under his wing.<ref>{{Cite web| last = Gomez| first = Ringo| title = Drie uur slaap per nacht en voor de rest: muziek| work = De Morgen| access-date = 2023-11-07| date = 2015-02-25| url = https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/drie-uur-slaap-per-nacht-en-voor-de-rest-muziek~b75d4259/| language = nl}}</ref>
Neve wrote the soundtrack for Felix Van Groeningen's ''Dagen Zonder Lief''.<ref name="AM">O'Brien, Jon [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jef-neve-mn0002443625/biography "Artist Biography"]. AllMusic. Retrieved 7 February 2015.</ref> He also composed for the VRT series ''In Vlaamse Velden'' (''In Flanders Fields'').<ref name="Hope" /> The pianist played on Ludovic Bource's soundtrack for ''The Artist''.<ref name="Hope" />
''The Guardian'''s reviewer of Neve's 2008 release ''Soul in a Picture'' commented that the pianist's playing contained "a very personal language, one which draws freely on classical music and – aided and abetted by Piet Verbist (bass) and Teun Verbruggen (drums) – has the impetus of jazz and rock".<ref>Nicholson, Stuart (13 July 2008) [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/13/jazz.reviews "Jef Neve Trio, Soul in a Picture"]. ''The Guardian''.</ref> Neve appeared on José James' 2010 album ''For All We Know''.<ref name="AM" />
==Discography== An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.
===As leader/co-leader=== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year recorded !Title !Label !Personnel/Notes |- |2002–03 |''Blue Saga'' |Contour |With Piet Verbist (bass), Lieven Venken and Teun Verbruggen (drums); Peter Kindt and Kristof Lefebre (trombone); Koen Mertens (drums on one track) |- |2004* |''It's Gone'' |Contour |With Piet Verbist (bass), Teun Verbruggen (drums), Bert Joris (trumpet), Frederic Heirman (trombone), Peter Kindt (bass trombone), Berlinde Deman (bass tuba) |- |2006 |''Nobody Is Illegal'' |EmArcy |Trio, with Piet Verbist (bass), Teun Verbruggen (drums) |- |2008* |''Soul in a Picture'' |EmArcy |Trio, with Piet Verbist (bass), Teun Verbruggen (drums) |- |2009* |''Face to Face'' |Enja |With Pascal Schumacher |- |2010 |''Imaginary Road'' |EmArcy |Trio, with Ruben Samama (bass), Teun Verbruggen (drums) |- |2012* |''Sons of the New World'' |Universal |With Myrddin de Cauter (clarinet, guitar), Michael Campagna (sax, flute), Jo Hermans (trumpet, flugelhorn), Pieter Kindt (trombone), Bart Indevuyst (horn), Sean Fasciani (bass), Teun Verbruggen (drums) |- |2013–14 |''One'' |EmArcy |Solo piano |- |2017 |Spirit Control |Universal |With Sam Sparro (vocal), Teus Nobel (trumpet), Amber Docters van Leeuwen (cello) |- |2019 |Sharing Life Stories |Universal |Solo piano |- |2020 |Mysterium |Universal |With Jasper Høiby (double bass), Teus Nobel (trumpet), Nicolas Kummert (tenor sax), Bruno Van der Haegen (tenor sax), Andy Dhondt (tenor sax), Pieter Kindt (bass trombone) |- |2023 |That Old Feeling |Universal |With various vocalists; Madeleine Peyroux, Sam Merrick (singer), Trijntje Oosterhuis, Sam Sparro, Typhoon, Robin McKelle, Johnny Manuel, Monique Harcum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stenson |first=Daniel |title=MarlbankWebsite |url=https://www.marlbank.net/posts/jef-neve-that-old-feeling-universal-music-belgium |access-date=2023-05-16 |website=MarlbankWebsite |language=en}}</ref> |}
===As sideman=== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year recorded !Leader !Title !Label |- |2010* |{{sortname|José|James}} |''For All We Know'' |Impulse!/Verve |- |2010* |{{sortname|Gabriel|Ríos}} |''The Dangerous Return'' |PIAS |}
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