Rob Agerbeek

Robbert Arris Jules (Rob) Agerbeek (Jakarta, 28 september 1937) is a Dutch Boogie-woogie and Jazz pianist and winner of several Jazz concourses in the Netherlands in the late 1950s.

Except for one piano lesson from his mother he is completely self-taught. He learned the piano by listening to records. 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 accompanies more than hundred foreign, mainly American, Jazz musicians such as Ben Webster, Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin and Gene Ammons.

With his Quartet and solo he records a score of albums of which two on the Oldie Blues label.

Selected discography

 * Beatles' Boogies, CBS, 1971
 * The Boogie Rocks, Oldie Blues, 1975
 * Three of a Kind, Oldie Blues, 1997