Ack van Rooyen is a significant name in Dutch jazz. He is one of the leading flugelhorn players. At Colores he can be heard with the Metropole Orchestra conducted by Dolf van der Linden, his brother Jerry van Rooyen and Lex Jasper. There are beautiful arrangements from Jerry van Rooyen; there are also three arrangements by Peter Herbolzheimer. The 10 songs are very stylized and captivate by their
… tight melody. With these recordings, Ack van Rooyen ends up in the spotlight as a masterful flugelhorn player. In addition to classics such as Django, The Touch Of Your Lips and My Ideal, this CD also contains compositions such as The Ballad Of The Sad Young Man (Tommy Wolf) and Pra Dizer Adeus (Edu Lobo). Highly recommended, partly because of a number of surprisingly beautiful compositions! (JW)more
