16-12-2020 Na Dann
"Less is more... Carefully they tune their tone sequences to each other, perhaps improvising freely, but always in flowing harmonies. After that, there is only silence.
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07-12-2020 Jazznu
"Both musicians create enormous expressiveness with often only a handful of notes
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30-11-2020 Jazzenzo
"The duo reaches the pinnacle of artistic depth in the national anthem "Black is the Color": every note is touching and sticks to your hearing
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20-11-2020 Trouw
"Now that his playing has become both more sober and more intense in recent years, the emotional charge, just like a good pop song, reaches the listener much more directly
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05-10-2018 Eindhovens Dagblad
"Goldbrun, released on CD last year, is an atmospheric album with music in which every note has a charge. Now there is also a version on vinyl. Honing is very satisfied with it. "Pressed on marbled, 180 grams vinyl", he smiles."
28-09-2018 Dagblad vh Noorden
"Gesamtkunstwerk, both artists call it. A heavy romantic concept, but there is something to be said for it, because not only do you enter a space with sculptures and wall-filling paintings, but the music you hear is also a creation of Goldbrun, as the entire work of art is called. Goldbrun is also the title of the album with which Yuri Honing won the prestigious Edison Jazz Award 2018."
20-09-2018 RTV Oost
"Mariecke van der Linden and Yuri Honing are the surprise in Museum de Fundatie"
03-11-2017 Rootstime
"The masterpiece "Goldbrun" does not require further promotion, this belongs in the record box of every proper music lover."
12-10-2017 Mania
"Goldbrun is an ode to seventy years of peace in Europe, Germany's role in it and the great artists who voorbracht to this case, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss."
02-10-2017 De Volkskrant
"Special how the musicians find each other at the right time, after which Honing himself in the final piece the light bending notes with a lot of feeling floating through the hall."
01-06-2015 Music Emotion
""The record is atmospheric, deep and easeful. [..]Quite an achievement to be able to capture the concept of 'desire' in music and improvisation like this.""
01-06-2015 Jazzhalo
""Desire is captured perfectly on Yuri Honing's new album of the same title. The eight tracks on this album reflect eight different feelings of desire. Some pieces are about pain, some are hopeful and dreamy, and others are more resigned or even peaceful. Renowned for mixing styles, Honing again explores his musical boundaries with moving melodies framed by pop, classical music and early music compositional techniques." "
27-05-2015 AllAboutJazz
""Desire is an affair of the heart in more ways than one. The CD's inside cover contains a poem entitled "Our Heart" by Joost Zwagerman, inspired by that most vital organ. Zwagerman's rich trawl of adjectives includes intimate, bittersweet, vulnerable and intense —descriptions that equally sum up Honning's haunting, heartfelt music;; music as delicate and as vital as the "fragile fist thumping and pumping" inside each of us. ""
06-03-2015 Trouw
""The tension between surrender and restraint, self loss and self-control, is on "Desire ' constantly felt." "
04-03-2015 Dagblad De Limburger
""Desire is the work of experienced musicians. They can read and write with each other. There isn't a note nonsense on this album.""
22-08-2013 Haarlems Dagblad
"Tenor saxophonist Yuri Honing has a different sound than others in the current mainstream jazz, regarding to choice of repertoire as well as his style of playing."
20-12-2012
"“Every tone is moving, never reckless and always open for conversation.” Tim Sprangers – de Volkskrant – 19 december 2012"
Jazzmozaïek
""This quartet is high class as a whole, with stylish pianist Wolfer Brederode adding color.""
