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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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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:

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

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

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