05-11-2015 Draai om je oren
"["]..A Desire anyway to make wonderful music. And that has succeeded excellently tonight by Honing and his quartet.""
01-11-2015 Jazz'n'More
""Sweet melancholy does have its attraction, if it comes along as credibly and authentically as it does here""
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." "
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.""
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. ""
29-04-2015 De Standaard
""Honing plays gorgeous, varies and streches his show, puts anything bigger and gets you with his long, floating tones in his story full of cravings."
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20-04-2015 Jazznu
""Stick to each of the eight pieces of music of composer Honing, experience the ever changing music, let you fondle by these so wonderful combination of tenor saxophone, piano, double bass and percussion." "
01-04-2015 De Volkskrant
""Beautiful, lingering compositions, in which Honing can really let his tenor saxophone sing in deep spherical tones.""
16-03-2015 Jazzism
"Interview Yuri Honing: "Verlangen is een krachtige drijfveer voor vrijwel alle kunstvormen. Saxofonist Yuri Honing heeft er een prachtig album aan gebeid met daarop tedere, contemplatieve en vol mededogen doortrokken muziek. Met Desire laat hij alle facetten van het verlangen horen. Een nieuwe mijlpaal voor de voormalige winnaar van onze voornaamste jazzprijs." "
06-03-2015 Mania
""The music is a mix of dreamy and abstract sounds with seductive grooves and catchy melodies."
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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.""
02-03-2015 NRC Handelsblad
""From desire to imagination is the jazz with subtile percussion, soft bass and stinging piano work thought out in all its simplicity."
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02-03-2015 NRC Next
""The retained melodies swell in waves and the tension is built up carefully.""
19-02-2015 Het Parool
""With his recognizable sound of controlled, elongated, floating sounds he mounts a inescapable atmosphere down to Desire."
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Trouw
"Interview with Yuri Honing"
Jazzmozaïek
""This quartet is high class as a whole, with stylish pianist Wolfer Brederode adding color.""
Yuri Honing (artist)