ROB AGERBEEK

    ROBBERT ARRIS JULES " ROB " AGERBEEK , nació en INDONESIA., concretamente en Batavia ( Jakarta ) En 1954 viajó con su familia a Holanda para dedicarse a tocar el pianoi, había aprendido de s los grandes clásicos del género del Boogie-Woogie, y también del Jazz, que habitualmente suele practicar, es un hombre atrevido con un estilo muy personal que le gusta tocar diferentes estilos, tan atrevido es que osó grabar un album dedicado a THE BEATLES., en formato Boogie-Woogie, podéis oirlo y ver que os parece ....  

Robbert Arris Jules "Rob" Agerbeek (born 28 September 1937, Batavia, Jakarta) is an Indonesian-born Dutch boogie-woogie and jazz pianist and winner of several jazz concourses in the Netherlands in the late 1950s. He is regarded as one of Europe’s finest jazz pianists, covering the full spectrum of jazz styles from his early days of Boogie-woogie to Chicago traditional Jazz, swing and contemporary jazz.

In 1954 Rob Agerbeek and his family arrived in the Netherlands. He started playing the piano at the age of 17 or 18. Except for one piano lesson from his mother he is completely self-taught; he learned the piano by listening to records of Albert Ammons, Johnny Maddox, Winifred Atwell, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis. In the first years of his career Agerbeek is mainly into Boogie-woogie and later in his career he expands his playing styles with bebop, hardbop and dixieland. He accompanied more than hundred, mainly American, Jazz musicians such as Ben Webster, Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin and Gene Ammons. Rob Agerbeek performed at international jazzfestivals as the Paris Jazz Festival, Hammerveld Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Kongsberg Jazz Festival and the Berlin Jazz Festival.