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What's New

15 July 2010

 

Belgian tour coming up with Ivan Paduart

Toon and pianist Ivan Paduart will be playing festivals and clubs in Belgium in September and October 2010. They will perform mainly original songs by Ivan and Toon in quartet and quintet formation. Over the years Toon and Ivan gave many concerts in several European countries, toured in China, and recorded several albums together. Ivan plays and writes lyrical, modern jazz and over the years he has performed and recorded with many well-known musicians.

For dates and more info visit CONCERTS

Read more on Ivan and listen to his new album with the Metropole Orkest on www.ivanpaduart.com

 

 

 

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With Peter Erskine in the Bimhuis, Amsterdam - 30 October 2009  picture by John Twigt
 
 
 
 
31 May 2010
 

TOON ROOS GROUP meets PETER ERSKINE

new album 'Angel Dance' coming up

 

 
After the well received quartet album Love Revisited with mainly standards, a new funky album of Toon called Angel Dance is coming up and is expected to be released in Fall 2010.
The Toon Roos Group features Karel Boehlee on piano & synths, Hein van de Geyn on bass and one of Toon's lifetime favourite drummers, the legendary Peter Erskine, who played with Weather Report, Steps Ahead, Yellowjackets, Steely Dan and many others.
An inspiring recording session resulted in nine songs with an attractive variation of moods and grooves... the music of Angel Dance can be described as 'lyrical, funky jazz' in original compositions by Toon, Karel and Peter.
 
On Friday 30 October 2009 the Toon Roos Group played the music of Angel Dance at a pre-release concert in a sold out Bimhuis in Amsterdam. Radio Netherlands/Wereldomroep recorded the concert and will broadcast several songs this summer in more than fourty countries worldwide. Also production company Workstation from Amsterdam made a five camera video recording of the evening, and will use footage of this show for a film they will produce on Toon's musical career. Also in this film there will be interviews with Toon and pianist Karel Boehlee on their music and the creation of Angel Dance, and with Peter Erskine on how his connection with the Netherlands developed over the years and his playing with Toon.
 
On behalf of the Group, to all the fans who were there in the Bimhuis and gave the band a great vibe, thank you so much... it was wonderful! 
 
Check out the pictures below by Fred van Wulften.
 
Read a review of the concert on www.jazzpodium.com
 
Stay tuned on this website for the CD release dates.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
What happened before...
 

Peter's manager in Europe, Marieke Pieters, brought Toon and Peter together in July 2008 and suggested them to do a performance. Peter needed a band for a concert in Bonn, and after hearing the CD Love Revisited he invited Toon and his quartet members Karel Boehlee and Hein van de Geyn to do the concert.

On 15 November that year Peter, Toon, Karel and Hein performed at a sold out Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, at the 'Drums Summit'. The great percussionist/drummer Alex Acuna joined them on stage during the first set. The group played several songs of Peter and a new composition of Toon called 'Obama Song'. After the break Peter played a set in duo with Alex Acuna, as a tribute to Weather Report, the legendary fusion group of which both drummers were members in the 70's and 80's. Watch videofragments of their show:


 

On stage in Bonn with Karel, Hein, Peter and Alex Acuna. by Franc auf dem Brinke

 

Peter also accepted Toon's invitation to go into the studio with this group and record a new album of Toon. Two days after their performance in Bonn they went into Lex Tanger's 'Studio -2' at the Amsterdam Conservatory to record 'Angel Dance'. Also Alex Acuna and Eddy Conard played some percussion tracks on the album.

Read more on Peter and Alex at

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Peter_Erskine.html

http://www.petererskine.com

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Alex_Acuna.html

 

 

At Studio -2, Conservatory of Amsterdam by Hilbert Kamphuisen

 

 

 

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Looking back on 2009

 

ON THE ROAD WITH STEELY DAN...

 

Olympia, Paris - July 2, 2009 picture by Toon

 

In March 2009 Toon received an unexpected call from Walter Becker, co-leader of Steely Dan, one of Toon's all time favourite bands. In 2001 they met at a concert of Toon in Amsterdam... eight years later Walter invited Toon to be the opening act for Steely Dan on their European summer tour. The Toon Roos Quartet joined in on the 'Left Bank Holiday Tour 2009' and performed in venues like the Hammersmith Apollo in London and the Olympia in Paris...

 

The tourlist and line up:

June 25 - Amsterdam, Holland - Heineken Music Hall

June 26 - Brussels, Belgium - Forest National

June 28 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh Playhouse

June 29 - Birmingham, UK - NIA

July 01 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo

July 02 - Paris, France - Olympia

July 06 - Rome, Italy - Cavea Auditorium *

July 08 - Padova, Italy - Villa Contarini *

July 09 - Milan, Italy - Arena Civica *

 

Padova, Italy - 8 July 2009 picture by Toon

 

  Toon Roos - tenor & soprano saxophone

Karel Boehlee - keyboards

Hein van de Geyn - double bass

Joost van Schaik - drums

* Clemens van der Feen - double bass

 

 Donald Fagen, Toon & Walter backstage in Padova, Italy, 8 July 2009. Picture by Toon

 

Each night the quartet played a thirty minute set with three lyrical and groovy compositions of Toon: Reach For The Rose, More Than A Memory and Keep It Going. Check out more pictures of the quartet on stage in the Forest National in Brussels on http://www.jany.nl/news.php?item.116.3#

The first two songs are from the quartet album The Human Feel. Keep It Going is a song from Toon's new album Angel Dance.  Listen and purchase Toon's US prize winning song Reach For The Rose and other songs on

Toon Roos Quartet - Love Revisited

For more information on Steely Dan visit www.steelydan.com

Read an interview with Toon on his music, his love for Steely Dan and his connection with Walter on  http://www.writingaffairs.com/mizar5/tr.html

 

 

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