The Skymasters with special guests Astrud Gilberto and Dizzy Gillespie • 1982 • World of Jazz

Ack van Rooyen. On November 18, 2021, Dutch flugel and trumpet player Ack van Rooijen passed away at the age of 91. He played with Dutch jazz orchestra The Skymasters . AVRO’s Big Band Ack van Rooyen (Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland), 1 januari 1930 – Den Haag, 18 november 2021) was een Nederlandse jazz-trumpettist en flügelhornist. Van Rooyen studied at the Conservatory in The Hague. In 1949 he started his professional career with Het Gelders Orkest. From 1952 he worked for various jazz ensembles, such as The Ramblers (together with his brother Jerry van Rooyen), the orchestra of Aimé Barelli in Paris and the SFB big band in Berlin. Van Rooyen became known as a soloist during the concerts and recordings of the orchestra of Bert Kaempfert. He has also played for The Skymasters, the United Jazz Rock Ensemble and Peter Herbolzheimer’s Rhythm Combination & Brass. In 1980 he returned to the Hague Conservatory, now as a teacher. In 2007 Van Rooyen received the Sing