Producer, Researcher & Presenter
Co-owner of independent label 678 records
Worked as deejay and producer for VPRO, Dutch radio
Producer of releases by Dutch Jazz Archive (Nederlands Jazz Archief)
ALBUMS
Clifford Jordan
Beyond Paradiso (1969-1970)
2024, 
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, Post Bop
Pieter Verlinden
De Komst Van Joachim Stiller
2023, LP, inc, 678 Records, ,
, Soundtrack/Psychedelic/Theme/Score
Chet Baker
Blue Room (The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions In Holland)
2023, 2x Vinyl 180-gram,
Cool Jazz
Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra*
Paradiso Amsterdam 1970
2023, CD, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Space-Age
Toots Thielemans, Rob Franken
Toots Thielemans Meets Rob Franken (Studio Sessions 1973-1983)
2022, 3xCD, Nederlands Jazz Archief, ,
, Easy Listening/Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Jazz
Bud Shank, Bob Cooper And June Christy, Stan Kenton And His Orchestra, Shelly Manne & His Men, The Jimmy Giuffre 3* With Jim Hall
West Coast In Amsterdam
2022, 3xCD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief, 
Septet Frans Elsen Featuring Piet Noordijk
Norway
2022
Ruud Bos
De Fabriek - Original Soundtrack 1981
2021
Third Eye
Sound Cycles
2021
Bill Evans
Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings
2021, 2x CD, 
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, Cool Jazz/Post Bop/Modal
Ian Carr's Nucleus*
Exit 1971
2020, 2xLP, Album, Mono, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk
Rob Pronk
The Bebop Years (Studio Sessions 1950 - 1957)
2020, CD, Album, Mono, Nederlands Jazz Archief
Ann Burton
Early Blue 1958-1968
2020
Sonny Rollins
Rollins In Holland
2020, 3x Vinyl Gatefold, 180g, ,
, Hard Bop/Free Improvisation
Gerry Mulligan And The Concert Jazz Band*
Young Blood
2019, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief
Orchestra Les Mangelepa / Dieuf-Dieul De Thiès
Live In Hertme 2
2018, CD, Album, Very Open Jazz Records, ,
, African/Highlife
Dexter Gordon
In The Cave (Live at Persepolis Utrecht 1963)
2018, CD, Album, Mono, Nederlands Jazz Archief, ,
, Bop/Hard Bop
Jazz At The Philharmonic Featuring Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter And Dizzy Gillespie, Leo Wright, Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson
Live In Amsterdam 1960
2018, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief, ,
, Bop/Swing
Pork Pie
Berlin 1974
2018, Vinyl, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Krautrock/Modal
Ella Fitzgerald
'S Wonderful (Live In Amsterdam 1957 &1960)
2017, ,
, Bop/Swing/Vocal
Hank Mobley
To One So Sweet Stay That Way - Hank Mobley in Holland
2017, CD, ,
, Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz
Bill Evans
Another Time (The Hilversum Concert)
2017
Herman Schoonderwalt
The Winner
2017, ,
, Hard Bop/Modal/Post Bop
Jan Huydts Trio
Conception
2016, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
, Free Funk/Experimental/Psychedelic/Krautrock/Free Improvisation/Jazz-Funk
Jasper Van't Hof, Jasper Van't Hof 1/4tet
No Hard Shoulder
2016, CD, Album, Very Open Jazz Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Sekou Kouyate / Debademba
Live In Hertme
2016, CD, Very Open Jazz Records
Cannonball Adderley
One For Daddy-O
2016, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief, ,
, Bop/Hard Bop
Ben Webster Meets Piet Noordijk
Johnny Come Lately (Live In Groningen 1973)
2016, CD, 
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, Bop/Swing
Count Basie Orchestra
Blues Backstage
2015, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief, ,
, Big Band
Boy's Big Band
Return Live Recordings 1965-1966
2015, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief
Thelonious Monk
Jackie-ing (Live In Amsterdam May 1961)
2014, ,
, Hard Bop
Rita Hovink + Casey & the Pressure Group*
Rita Hovink + Casey & the Pressure Group
2013, 7", EP, 678 Records
The Keyboard Circle
1976
2009, CD, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Fusion/Modal/Free Improvisation
Bill Evans
Behind The Dikes (The 1969 Netherlands Recordings)
2021
Astrid Nijgh
Tegen Het Lijf
2007, CD, Album, Dig, APM Entertainment
APPEARANCES +
The Dutch Hobby Orchestra*
Our Time
2023, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief
Pieter Verlinden
Jambon D'Ardenne
2022, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
, Soundtrack/Theme
Rita Hovink
Favorieten Expres
2020, CD, Comp, Universal Music,
Orkest Ruud Bos*
The Secret All Star Band
2019, CD, Album, Mono, Nederlands Jazz Archief
The Rob Franken Electrification*
Functional Stereo Music
2019, 3xCD, Album, Comp, 678 Records
Rita Hovink
Love Me Or Leave Me
2019
The Rob Franken Electrification* + Joop Scholten + Eef Albers
Together
2018, LP, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock/Easy Listening
The Rob Franken Electrification* + Joop Scholten + Eef Albers
Absorbed Love
2018, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk/Easy Listening
The Rob Franken Electrification* + Joop Scholten
Blue Sky Fingers
2018, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Easy Listening/Jazz-Rock
The Rob Franken Electrification* + Wolfgang Schlüter
Don't Stop
2018, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Jazz-Rock/Easy Listening
The Rob Franken Electrification* + Ferdinand Povel + Jiggs Whigham + Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen + Joop Scholten + Jan Huydts + John Lee (3) & Gerry Brown
Colours & Images
2018, LP, Album, 678 Records, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Rock
Rob Franken Electrification Trio
Six Seven Eight
2018, LP, Album, 678 Records
Don Byas Meets The Jacobs Brothers
Groovin' High (Live In Haarlem 1964)
2016, CD, Album, Nederlands Jazz Archief
Wim Sonneveld
Wim Sonneveld Op De Plaat
2015, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Universal Music
Ruud Bos
Naked Plus (Original Soundtracks 1967-1973)
2015, 2x CD, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Score
Boy Edgar
De Geniale Chaos Van Boy Edgar
2014, CD, Ltd, Promo, 678 Records, ,
, Audiobook/Big Band
Rob Franken Featuring Jimmy Owens, Clark Terry, Ernie Wilkins & Jean 'Toots' Thielemans*
Fender Rhodes
2009, 2xCD, Sonic Scenery, ,
, Jazz-Funk/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz
