Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Heaven on My Mind

10 year anniversary

Heaven on My Mind marks the tenth anniversary of the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet. On this 5th album from the group, saxophonist Yuri Honing shows his love for the freer acoustic jazz that emerged in the 1960s, at the same time as the hippie movement. This spiritual movement within jazz was led by, among others, saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders. Yuri Honing worked with Pat Metheny, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charlie Haden, Ibrahim Maalouf and many others. After his Edison-winning collaboration with pianist Paul Bley, he won the most important prize for jazz and improvisation music in the Netherlands in 2012, the Boy Edgar Prize. 'True', the opening track of his album of the same name, was considered one of the most beautiful Dutch jazz compositions by de Volkskrant.