Avalon Songs by Yuri Honing / Wolfert Brederode

Yuri Honing / Wolfert Brederode

Avalon Songs

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917351729
Catnr: CR 73517
Release date: 20 November 2020
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Label
Challenge Records

UPC
0608917351729

Catalogue number
CR 73517

Release date
20 November 2020

"An expressive, lyrical and emotional duo jazz recording the two Dutchmen YURI HONING (tenorsax) and WOLFERT B R E D E R O D E (piano) with their latest album "Avalon Songs" ( C h a l l e n g e Records/Bertus)..."

Inmusic, 23-4-2021

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About the album

Yuri Honing:

"Avalon is inspired by an ancient Celtic myth of an island in dense fog where the Holy Grail is said to be located, King Arthur is buried and where Excalibur is hidden.
I use it as a metaphor for the present time in which we live in which it is not clear to anyone what the world will look like after the pandemic.
The single Avalon is a dreamy piece of music that is also used for the exhibition in De Fundatie that will run until the spring of 2021."

Yuri Honing:
"Avalon ist inspiriert vom alten keltischen Mythos einer Insel in dichtem Nebel, auf der sich angeblichder Heilige Gral befindet, König Artus begraben ist und auf der Excalibur versteckt ist. Ich benutze ihn als Metapher für die heutige Zeit, in der wir leben, in der niemandem klar ist, wie die Welt nach der Pandemie aussehen wird.
Das Titelstücks Avalon ist ein verträumtes Musikstück, das auch für die Ausstellung in De Fundatie verwendet wird, die bis zum Frühjahr 2021 laufen wird".

Yuri Honing, ursprünglich schlicht und einfach ein Jazzmusiker, hat seinen musikalischen Horizont durch die Zusammenarbeit mit so großen Talenten wie Pat Metheny und Charlie Haden erweitert. Seinen ersten internationalen Durchbruch erzielte Honing mit seiner Trio-Aufnahme "Star Tracks", einem Album, das nur aus Popsongs bestand. Eine weitere bahnbrechende Aufnahme war "Seven", die in New York mit Paul Bley, Gary Peacock und Paul Motion entstand und mit dem renommierten Edison (niederländischer Grammy) ausgezeichnet wurde.
Yuri Honing betrachtet Jazz nie als Stil, sondern als Sprache. Er tourte in über siebzig Ländern mit den größten Musikern, mit denen er arbeiten und von denen er lernen konnte. Sein feiner musikalischer Instinkt verleiht seinen Liedern zusätzliche Spannung und Tiefe. Und so unterhält und inspiriert er weiterhin ein Publikum auf der ganzen Welt. JAZZFUN

Der Pianist Wolfert Brederode (1974) ist seit 1996 als Musiker und Komponist tätig und hat sich zu einem der authentischsten Musiker der jüngeren niederländischen Generation entwickelt. Ein raffinierter und konzentrierter Anschlag, die Beachtung des natürlichen Flusses, die Offenheit für alle Arten von Musik und seine unermüdliche Suche nach neuen Horizonten sind charakteristisch für seine Musik.
Wolfert hat mit Künstlern wie David Liebman, Jeanne Lee, Arve Henriksen, Mark Feldman, Ernst Reijseger, Matthieu Michel, Tore Brunborg, Rachel Gould, Wolfgang Puschnig, Ronan Guilfoyle, Mats Eilertsen, Tony Lakatos, Michel Portal zusammengearbeitet, Per Oddvar Johansen, Claudio Puntin, Olavi Louhivuori, Oene van Geel, Bram Stadhouders, Jarle Vespestad, Ack van Rooyen, Theo Loevendie, Lucas Niggli, Gerald Veasley, John Ruocco, Eric Vloeimans, Cristina Branco und Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Neben seiner Tätigkeit als darstellender Künstler hat Wolfert Kompositionen für verschiedene Theater-, Tanz- und Filmproduktionen beigesteuert. Wolfert ist Klavier- und Ensemblelehrer an den Jazz-Abteilungen der Konservatorien von Tilburg und Den Haag.

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Yuri Honing (tenor saxophone)

In 2001, Honing met Paul Bley and recorded the album Seven, featuring Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. This album garnered Honing the Dutch Edison Award in 2002. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th Edition), this CD was recognized with four (out of five) stars. For a few years Honing organized a special concert named Winterreise at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In December 2015 he played his final show at the venue. After the success of his fusion band Yuri Honing Wired Paradise, which was characterized by its rock influence and electric guitars, Honing assembled his Acoustic Quartet in 2012. In 2016, the quartet won the Edison award for 'Best Instrumental Jazz Album' for their...

In 2001, Honing met Paul Bley and recorded the album Seven, featuring Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. This album garnered Honing the Dutch Edison Award in 2002. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th Edition), this CD was recognized with four (out of five) stars.
For a few years Honing organized a special concert named Winterreise at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In December 2015 he played his final show at the venue.
After the success of his fusion band Yuri Honing Wired Paradise, which was characterized by its rock influence and electric guitars, Honing assembled his Acoustic Quartet in 2012. In 2016, the quartet won the Edison award for 'Best Instrumental Jazz Album' for their second CD, Desire (2015). The group's third album, Goldbrun (2018), won this award as well, making it his third Edison in total.

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Wolfert Brederode (piano)

Wolfert Brederode started playing classical piano and violin at the age of seven. In his early teenage years he also discovered pop- and jazz music and started composing his own music. In 1999 he graduated with honors from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he had been studying with ao Frans Elsen, Albert Brussee and Rob van Kreeveld. Wolfert has since then developed into one of the most prominent and authentic voices on the Dutch jazz scene. His refined and focused touch, the concern for natural flow, his openness and a relentless search for new horizons are characteristic features of his music. He debuted with groups such as Nimbus, the Wolfert Brederode Quintet and Trio, Binary Orchid, Duo Lijbaart/Brederode and Batik. Later...

Wolfert Brederode started playing classical piano and violin at the age of seven. In his early teenage years he also discovered pop- and jazz music and started composing his own music.

In 1999 he graduated with honors from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he had been studying with ao Frans Elsen, Albert Brussee and Rob van Kreeveld.

Wolfert has since then developed into one of the most prominent and authentic voices on the Dutch jazz scene. His refined and focused touch, the concern for natural flow, his openness and a relentless search for new horizons are characteristic features of his music.

He debuted with groups such as Nimbus, the Wolfert Brederode Quintet and Trio, Binary Orchid, Duo Lijbaart/Brederode and Batik. Later he founded his lauded international quartet with Claudio Puntin, Mats Eilertsen and Samuel Rohrer. Ensembles of current interest are Ruins and Remains, a project with drummer Joost Lijbaart and the Matangi Quartet, duo Ella Zirina/Wolfert Brederode and duo Lijbaart/Brederode. As a leader he recorded four albums for ECM Records. His latest album is Ruins and Remains which has been released in September 2022 on ECM and has been rewarded with the Edison Jazz Award in 2023.

As a much in demand sideman Wolfert has been working extensively with ao Susanne Abbuehl, Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet, Celano/Baggiani/Badenhorst/Brederode and Kika Sprangers’s No Man’s Land. Both as a sideman and with his own ensembles he recorded several albums, and toured and performed at festivals throughout Europe, North- and South America, Canada, Asia, Australia and Africa. Four albums on which he collaborated have been awarded with an Edison Award. Wolfert has furthermore worked with artists such as David Liebman, Arve Henriksen, Mark Feldman, Tore Brunborg, Ack van Rooyen, Jeanne Lee, Mathias Eick, Michel Portal and Marilyn Mazur.

Apart from performing Wolfert composes regularly for dance, theatre and film productions as well as working as a producer. Wolfert is a main subject teacher jazz piano & ensembles at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and Fontys in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

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Composer(s)

Yuri Honing

In 2001, Honing met Paul Bley and recorded the album Seven, featuring Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. This album garnered Honing the Dutch Edison Award in 2002. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th Edition), this CD was recognized with four (out of five) stars.
For a few years Honing organized a special concert named Winterreise at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In December 2015 he played his final show at the venue.
After the success of his fusion band Yuri Honing Wired Paradise, which was characterized by its rock influence and electric guitars, Honing assembled his Acoustic Quartet in 2012. In 2016, the quartet won the Edison award for 'Best Instrumental Jazz Album' for their second CD, Desire (2015). The group's third album, Goldbrun (2018), won this award as well, making it his third Edison in total.

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Press

An expressive, lyrical and emotional duo jazz recording the two Dutchmen YURI HONING (tenorsax) and WOLFERT B R E D E R O D E (piano) with their latest album "Avalon Songs" ( C h a l l e n g e Records/Bertus)...
Inmusic, 23-4-2021

... With compositions of both musicians (Honing/ Brederode) and others by Charlie Haden, Friedrich Hollaender and Billy Strayhorn a feel-good atmosphere is created...
Jazzpodium 3 4 2021, 23-2-2021

... subdued ballads of beautiful but dark depth, music for coming to rest, meditation or just pleasantly engage in a music of silence. A duo of tenor saxophone and piano means almost permanent playing of both. Yuri Honing and Wolfert Brederode meet this challenge with their chamber European jazz...
Jazz-Fun, 20-1-2021

... ... Long note values dominate, sparse solos happen as if by the way. And everything lives from a nature-like gesture: the piano lets tones fall like heavy raindrops in the title track "Avalon" or conjures up the undulations of an unknown sea in "Ebb", in addition one hears again and again how the breath, that precious commodity, flows through the saxophone and dies.....
Rondo, 16-1-2021

... Honing and Brederode concentrate on slow tempi, listen to their partner's sounds and sensitively influence the direction of the sound flow. Honing's breathy intonation reinforces the impression of tender intimacy. They don't need a trip into the realm of legend. Their dialogue fills the present with life.
Audio, 08-1-2021

Together with him (Brederode) Honing recorded the equally tender and melancholy music for the album "Avalon Songs", which was released at the end of 2020... ... In "The Flowers Die Of Love", the finale of this album, one senses the greatest possible fragility and a quiet reminiscence of John Coltrane's hymn "After The Rain".
NDR CD of the week, 08-1-2021

... Yuri Honing has a strong, characteristic sound, recognizable tone and specific expression. A beautifully recorded album, ideal for long autumn and winter evenings.
Jazz-Fun, 04-1-2021

... All in all, once again beautiful music, which in its reduction allows relaxation to arise, invites you to switch off and seduces you to dream. This music enchants..
Musikansich, 21-12-2020

Carefully they tune their tone sequences to each other, perhaps improvising freely, but always in flowing harmonies. After that, there is only silence...
Na Dann, 18-12-2020

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NPO Radio 4 - Vrije Geluiden, 09-12-2020

... A highlight is their instrumental version of a song that the composer Friedrich Hollaender once wrote for Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in 1931...
Bayerischer Rundfunk, 08-12-2020

Both musicians create enormous expressiveness with often only a handful of notes
Jazznu, 07-12-2020

... Yuri Honing never regards jazz merely as a style, but rather as a language. His distinct musical instinct always gives his compositions tension and depth...
Radio Dreyeckland, 06-12-2020

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Le Soir, 01-12-2020

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
Jazzenzo, 30-11-2020

The notes of saxophonist Yuri Honing are touching and deep
De Volkskrant, 26-11-2020

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Open Jazz - France, 23-11-2020

Yuri Honing and Wolfert Brederode make music so beautiful that it hurts
Het Parool, 20-11-2020

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
Trouw, 20-11-2020

... His tenor saxophone plays soft, sometimes breathy tones, while retaining volume and colorfulness. It leaves room, allows for width, but does not lose its structure...
Jazzthing, 24-10-2020