A Goodbye in Jazz – Ack van Rooyen Reimagined #jazzlegends #emotional
) 🎩 “Smile” — tender as a memory, raw as a goodbye. This special performance blends live concert footage with scenes of Charlie Chaplin, capturing the emotional heartbeat behind Song for Lost Friends, the upcoming jazz tribute album featuring the late, great Ack van Rooyen. 🎺 Ack’s lyrical flugelhorn meets timeless melody in this moment of quiet brilliance. 👉 First single “The Touch of Your Lips” now streaming: https://found.ee/QxFWV0 🎧 Subscribe, follow, and let the music land where it needs to. — 🔗 Follow Edgar van Asselt Website: www.edgarvanasselt.com Bandcamp: edgarvanasselt.bandcamp.com Facebook: facebook.com/edgarvanasseltmusic Instagram: @edgarvanasselt Twitter/X: @EdgarAsselt LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/edgar-van-asselt-45283943 — #Smile #CharlieChaplin #AckVanRooyen #JazzTribute #Flugelhorn #EdgarVanAsselt #SongForLostFriends #NewJazz2025 #JazzLegends #LiveJazz #EmotionalJazz #BestNewJazzAlbum2025 #JazzClassics #JazzShorts #YouTubeShortsJazz
About Ack van Rooyen
Ack van Rooyen (1 January 1930, The Hague – 18 November 2021) was a Dutch jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. He was the brother of Jerry van Rooyen, also a trumpeter-composer. Van Rooyen began playing with a military band as a teenager, touring bases in Indonesia. He then studied music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, graduating in 1950, then worked with Ernst van 't Hoff and his brother. He played with The Ramblers in 1955–1957, then moved to France in 1957, where he worked with Aime Bar...
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