Rob Agerbeek

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Robbert Arris Jules "Rob" Agerbeek (born September 28, 1937 in Batavia ) is a Dutch jazz pianist of Indonesian origin. He is considered one of the best European jazz pianists of his generation and masters the entire spectrum from boogie woogie to swing to hard bop .

Live and act

Agerbeek, who started playing the piano as an autodidact at the age of 17 and was initially influenced by albums by Albert Ammons , Johnny Maddox , Winifred Atwell , Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis , moved with his family to the Netherlands in 1954. A year later he formed a first quartet, which developed into a quintet and in 1956 received first prize in the AVRO jazz competition. In 1958 the quintet won further prizes, in July the national jazz competition with bassist Henk Bosch van Drakestein . In 1959 he worked in Stockholm, where he accompanied Lars Gullin and formed a duo with bassist Jimmy Woode . In 1960/61 he belonged to the Peggy Miller Band, with whom he played in front of American soldiers, especially in France. In 1962 Nelson Williams brought him into his band before he played in the Diamond Five as the successor to Cees Slinger . For the next few years he led his boogie-woogie quartet and recorded with Harry Verbeke . In 1965 Don Byas brought him into his quartet. In the following years he accompanied numerous American musicians with his band, such as Ben Webster , Hank Mobley , Dexter Gordon , George Coleman , Johnny Griffin and Gene Ammons . He also recorded numerous albums as a soloist or with his own trio.

In 1976 Art Blakey brought him to his Jazz Messengers for a European tour after Mickey Tucker was arrested by British Customs. Since the first North Sea Jazz Festival , Agerbeek has accompanied soloists such as Frank Foster , Cecil Payne , Clark Terry , Al Gray , Eddie Cleanhead Vinson , Wynton Marsalis and Roy Hargrove . He also played from 1977 to 1981 with the revived by Bert de Kort The Dixieland Pipers . Between 1986 and 1988 Agerbeeks Trio (to which Frits Landesbergen now belonged) accompanied the singer Ann Burton . In the late 1990s he toured with boogie pianists Rob Hoeke and Jaap Dekker several times as The Grand Piano Boogie Train . Between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of the Dutch Swing College Band . In recent years he has occasionally performed with his trio and accompanied Ferdinand Povel , David Lukacs, Fred Korsman and Sjoerd Dijkhuizen as well as the singer Daisy Oosterhuis.

Discographic notes

  • Boogie Woogie Party , CBS, 1971
  • Homerun , Polydor, 1971
  • Beatles' Boogies , CBS, 1971
  • The Rob Agerbeek Trio featuring Dexter Gordon All Souls , Dexterity, 1972 (with Henk Haverhoek, Eric Ineke )
  • The Boogie Rocks , Oldie Blues, 1975
  • Harry Verbeke / Rob Agerbeek Quartet Gibraltar , Timeless , 1980
  • Harry Verbeke / Rob Agerbeek Quartet Seven Steps , Timeless, 1983
  • Harry Verbeke / Rob Agerbeek Stardust , Timeless, 1992
  • Three of a Kind , as Rob Agerbeek, Oldie Blues, 1998
  • Ann Burton & Mark Murphy Meet the Rob Agerbeek Trio That's all , Blue Jack Jazz Records, 2004
  • Rob Agerbeek / Ruud Brink Quartet Pardon My Bop , Blue Jack Jazz Records, 2004
  • John Marshall & The Rob Agerbeek Trio Almost Blue , Blue Jack Jazz Records, 2008 (with Harry Emmery , Ben Schröder)
  • George Coleman and The Rob Agerbeek Trio On Green Dolphin Street , Blue Jack Jazz Records, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhine Town Dixie Preachers . Rtdp.nl. May 21, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Interview with Rob Agerbeek by Ben Kraging Jr. (Jazz Magazine) website . Retrieved May 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Agerbeek, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agerbeek, Robbert Arris Jules (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch jazz pianist of Indonesian origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia