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Dear visitors,

Looking back, 2009 was a beautiful year: the European tour of the quartet with Steely Dan in June/July was simply great! It was wonderful for us to play in these impressive venues, with audiences up to 6000 people, and to open night after night for the one and only Steely Dan... The response on our music was beautiful, both from the audience, and from the Steely Dan band and crew... To everybody who enjoyed our music, bought our CD's, and gave us a good vibe while being on the road: thank you so much! Special thanks to Donald Fagen and Walter Becker for the honourful invitation.

Also a new funky album is coming up with one of my favourite drummers, Peter Erskine... a great person and a great musician! Many thanks to his manager Marieke Pieters for making it all possible... Read more on our recording with Peter further on. 

And a 'Jazz Impuls' theatre tour of the quartet with one of my favourite singers Humphrey Campbell is scheduled for February/March 2010. Good things coming up...  

I hope to see you at one of our concerts!

Peace is the deepest groove.

Toon

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TOON ROOS QUARTET & HUMPHREY CAMPBELL

IN THE THEATRES 

10 March 2010 at the Concertgebouw

The Toon Roos Quartet at the Bimhuis 2008:  Karel Boehlee, Toon Roos, Hein van de Geyn & Joost van Schaik.

In February/March 2010 Toon will perform in seven Dutch theatres with his quartet and special guest vocalist Humphrey Campbell. After many years, one of the finest singers in the Netherlands, Humphrey Campbell, makes his return to the stage... In the first set Humphrey will do a warm tribute to some of his favourite singers, such as Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau and George Benson.

In the second set the Toon Roos Quartet will play a program of standards and originals.

Toon and Humphrey worked together in the eighties with the Dutch Jazz Orchestra directed by Jerry van Rooijen. When Toon was asked by tour agency 'Jazz Impuls' to invite a guest singer for this tour it was an easy choice...

February 7 Arnhem, Musis Sacrum tel 026 4437343 www.schouwburgarnhem.nl

February 19 Woerden, Theater het Klooster tel 0348423066 www.site.kloosterwoerden.nl

February 25 Zutphen, Theater Hanzehof tel 0575 512013 www.hanzehof.nl 

March 10 Amsterdam, Concertgebouw tel 020 6718345 www.concertgebouw.nl 

 March 19 Helmond, Brabant House (Scala) tel 0492 542445 www.theaterspeelhuis.nl

March 25 Spijkenisse, Theater de Stoep tel 0181 652200 www.destoep.nu

March 27 Gouda, Goudse Schouwburg tel 0182 513750 www.goudseschouwburg.nl 

WATCH HUMPHREY AND THE QUARTET ON 'KUNSTSTOF TV'

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looking back on 2009...

TOON ROOS GROUP & PETER ERSKINE AT THE BIMHUIS

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

Drums Summit 2008

Peter is somewhere in the middle of the video. Other featured drummers are amongst others Joey Baron and Ndugu Chancler.

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. An inspiring recording session resulted in nine songs with a great variation of moods and grooves... the music of 'Angel Dance' can be described as lyrical, funky jazz. The songs on the album are composed by Toon, Karel and Peter.

Read more on Peter on www.petererskine.com

At Studio -2, Conservatory of Amsterdam by Hilbert Kamphuisen

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ON THE ROAD WITH STEELY DAN...

Olympia, Paris - July 2, 2009 picture by Toon Roos

In March 2009 Toon received an unexpected call from Walter Becker, co-leader of Steely Dan, one of Toon's favourite bands for many years. 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:

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, for sale in the webshop on this site. Keep It Going is a song from Toon's new album Angel Dance.

 Listen to US prize winning song Reach For The Rose and other songs on Toon's My Space site www.myspace.com/toonroos

For more information on Steely Dan and their complete summer tour 2009 visit

www.steelydan.com

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