Lots of praise has recently been spent in jazz critiques of the talented Dutch tenor saxophonist Yuri Honing. He is endowed with versatile gifts: good timing, a beautiful pure, balanced tone and imagination. Honing's jazz is energetic. He plays with extremes such as abstraction and tonality, form and freedom, passion and discipline. The combination of him, bassist Tony Overwater and drummer Joost
… Lijbaart is of a very high quality. Six of the seven compositions are by Honing himself. Miradou, the last track on the CD, was written by Overwater. This is not jazz that is driven by clichés, which is how Honing distinguishes itself from the youngest generation of American jazz stars.more
