The Skymasters with special guests Astrud Gilberto and Dizzy Gillespie • 1982 • World of Jazz

R.I.P Ack van Rooyen.
On November 18, 2021, Dutch flugel and trumpet player Ack van Rooijen passed away at the age of 91. He played with Dutch jazz orchestra The Skymasters a.k.a. AVRO's Big Band

Ack van Rooyen (Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland), 1 januari 1930 – Den Haag, 18 november 2021) was een Nederlandse jazz-trumpettist en flügelhornist.
Van Rooyen studied at the Conservatory in The Hague. In 1949 he started his professional career with Het Gelders Orkest. From 1952 he worked for various jazz ensembles, such as The Ramblers (together with his brother Jerry van Rooyen), the orchestra of Aimé Barelli in Paris and the SFB big band in Berlin.
Van Rooyen became known as a soloist during the concerts and recordings of the orchestra of Bert Kaempfert. He has also played for The Skymasters, the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble and Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass. In 1980 he returned to the Hague Conservatory, now as a teacher.

In 2007 Van Rooyen received the Singer Laren Jazz Award for his oeuvre. In 2017, the Lasting Applause Prize was awarded to him. On January 3, 2020, during the celebration of his 90th birthday in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, he was appointed officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. During inJazz in Rotterdam it was announced on 26 June 2020 that Van Rooyen had won the Buma Boy Edgar Prize 2020.

Van Rooyen passed away at the age of 91

The Skymasters (AVRO’s Big Band) under the direction of Tony Nolte

Soloists:
Ferdinand Povel, saxophone
Ack van Rooyen, bugel
Herman Schoonderwalt, alt saxopnone
Bart van Lier, trombone

Repertoire Skymasters:
0’25” ‘Wild Bill’
8’00” Smoke Gets In Your eyes (Jerome Kern)
14’50” The Runners (Jerry van Rooyen)
25’19” ‘Central Park’ (Chick Corea)

Astrud Gilberto with The Skymasters
Songs:
33'58" ‘Berimbau’ (Baden Powell)
36'54" ‘Waters Of March’ (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
40'11" ‘Ponteio’ (Jose Carlos Capinam, Edu Lobo)
42'49" ‘Dindi’
46'33" ‘In The Mood’
49'41" ‘Zazueira’ (Jorge Ben)

Dizzy Gillespie with The Skymasters
Repertoire:
55'58" ‘Night In Tunesia’ (Dizzy Gillespie)
1.04'16" ‘Lover Come Back To Me’ (Sigmund Romberg)
1.08'45"‘Doodlin’ (Horace Silver)
1.13'50" ‘Manteca’ (Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo, Gil Fuller)

The recording was made at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 17 July 1982 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

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