Jasper van't Hof was born 1947 in Enschede (The Netherlands). He was 19 years old when he could be heard at jazz festivals with among others, Pierre Courbois and the German jazz guitar player Toto Blanke. With the latter he founded the band Association P.C. In the seventies he founded the band Pork Pie. The group Pili Pili was founded in 1985 during a concert-tour around Africa with Trilok Gurtu (indian perc.). The latest CD by Pili Pili is called Timbuktu.