Ack van Rooyen

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Ack van Rooyen with a flugelhorn , 1992
Ack van Rooyen 1995
Ack van Rooyen 2009

Ack van Rooyen (born January 1, 1930 in The Hague ) is a Dutch trumpeter and flugelhorn player of modern jazz .

Live and act

Van Rooyen has been a member of Ernst van't Hoff's orchestra since 1947 . In 1949 he visited New York City as an exchange student with his brother Jerry van Rooyen , where he came into contact with Fats Navarro , Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown and got to know and exported the bebop . He studied classical trumpet at the Conservatory of The Hague (graduated with “summa cum laude”). After completing his studies, he worked from 1950 to 1952 as a member of the Arnhem Symphony Orchestra.

After his military service he worked as a studio musician and in the jazz band of Radio Hilversum from 1953 , but also toured Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium; During this time he worked with Lars Gullin, among others . From 1957 to 1960 he was in the orchestra of Aimé Barelli in Paris and also played with Kenny Clarke and Lucky Thompson . In 1960 he came to Berlin and was a co-founder of the big band of Sender Freies Berlin (1960 to 1966). There he played u. a. with Herb Geller , Åke Persson , Hans Koller , Friedrich Gulda .

Then he was in Stuttgart, where he lived from 1967 to 1978, a member of Erwin Lehn's SDR orchestra , the SWR Big Band renamed in 1998 . He continued to play with the Bert Kaempfert -Big Band, the Dutch Skymasters and, from 1975, in the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble , of which he is a founding member, and with Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination and Brass . He has also worked with Clark Terry , the Gil Evans Orchestra (Tour 1979) and Lee Konitz .

In 1980 he went back to the Netherlands, where he a. a. played with Dizzy Gillespie and Shelly Manne and taught at the Conservatory in The Hague . He travels with his own groups, including in a duo with Joerg Reiter and continues to appear as a guest soloist, for example with the Dutch Jazz Orchestra , the Metropole Orkest , the Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra , Soesja Citroen , Paul Heller or Rue Protzer . In the 2000s he led workshops and clinics across Europe. He also worked a. a. with Oliver Leicht , Paul Kuhn , the NDR Big Band ( Herb Geller turns 80 ), Ilona Haberkamp and Johanna Schneider . In the field of jazz he was involved in 121 recording sessions between 1955 and 2014, according to Tom Lord .

His trademarks are a warm, soft tone, his lightness and virtuosity , as well as the "renunciation" of "high notes".

For his services to jazz, he was knighted on September 9, 2006 on the historic Ronneburg castle.

Van Rooyen is one of the founders of Mood Records .

In 2005 he published a book with transcriptions of eleven solos, The Way I Play .

During his concert on his 90th birthday on January 3, 2020, Ack van Rooyen received the Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Dutch Order of Merit).

Student (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ack van Rooyen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ During this time, during a rehearsal due to an overstimulation of a facial muscle, he got serious problems with the attachment, which he overcame with great difficulty. See interview in Jazz Podium 6/2005.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 27, 2019)
  3. ↑ Article in the Reclams Jazzlexikon
  4. ^ Review in the jazz newspaper
  5. ↑ Ack van Rooijen Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nassau jazzism.nl of January 4, 2020, accessed on January 10, 2020 (in Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Rooyen, Ack van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague