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Wolfert Brederode

David Bowie Jazzed: Ten Essential Bowie Covers

by Ian Patterson
August 28, 2024

One of the measures of a great artist is the number of covers they have inspired. Covers of David Bowie songs are not in short supply; Blondie, The White Stripes, The Cure, Philip Glass, Nirvana, Bauhaus, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, to name just a handful, have all paid homage to ...

Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Heaven On My Mind

by Ian Patterson
May 19, 2024

So called spiritual-jazz seemed to come out of nowhere with John Coltrane in the mid-1960s. If one jazz musician was the catalyst for the emergence this sub-genre of jazz it was he. Coltrane acolytes Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane and Charles Lloyd, among others, subsequently took up the mantle. No easier to define than jazz itself, spiritual ...

Heaven On My Mind

By Yuri Honing

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Heaven On My Mind; So Long Song; Temple of Trees; Avalon; Avalon Reprise; Holding You; Saturnia; Pond of Spirits; Festina Lente.

Simin Tander: No Looking Back

by Ian Patterson
May 25, 2021

When an album receives widespread critical acclaim, generating extensive touring in its wake, the temptation must be to repeat the formula next time around. Especially for artists operating in the niche world of jazz/improvised music, where a sure gig can be something of a holy grail, it would make little sense to fix what ain't broken. ...

Bluebeard

By Yuri Honing

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bluebeard Maze; A Room With A View; Narcissus; The Art Of Losing Isn't Hard To Master; She Walked In Beauty Like The Night; Bits Of Paradise; Sonnet No.6 Bluebeard; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

Joost Lijbaart: Free Conversations With Myself

by Ian Patterson
December 11, 2020

For an artist, making any album is something of a journey—the birthing of ideas, the moulding and sculpting of concepts, the creative trial and error, the emotional highs and lows, and in the end, the satisfaction of a work completed. Dutch drummer/percussionist and composer Joost Lijbaart has travelled that road many times in a thirty-year career, ...

Yuri Honing: Sounds And Vision

by Ian Patterson
June 5, 2020

Strange that such a gruesome tale, drowning in blood, could have inspired so much great art. So it goes with Bluebeard, the seventeenth century French folktale, which continues to inspire artists to this day. Dutch saxophonist/composer Yuri Honing's Bluebeard (2020)-- his fourth album on Challenge Records with his acoustic quartet--is not just a highly personal take ...

Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Bluebeard

by Ian Patterson
May 26, 2020

Since the late 1980s, Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing has steered a singularly eclectic course, bouncing between straight-ahead jazz, the two-guitar Wired Paradise, rock-cum-electronica, and Franz Schubert. This questing musician has never sat still for long. The mesmeric True (Challenge Records, 2012), however, marked the beginning of a more stripped down, meditative acoustic jazz, an aesthetic further ...

Wouter Turkenburg: Jazz Education in the New Millennium

by Victor L. Schermer
October 17, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 All About Jazz and Wouter Turkenburg would like to dedicate this interview to the memory of saxophonist Michael Brecker (1949-2007). In addition to his prodigious accomplishments as an instrumentalist and band leader, Brecker was an exceptional worldwide ...