Yuri Honing – review

Pizza Express Jazz Club, LondonWith his new album, True, the Dutch tenor saxophonist Yuri Honing sounds as if he has moved a considerable distance from the often fierce avant-fusion music he has made with his Wired Paradise band, and still more so from the wilful, wayward, post-Monk jazz he once shared with Netherlands piano legend Misha Mengelberg. Honing's new release has an impressionistic, tone-savouring atmosphere, although the leader's fondness for warping pop songs is still intact, in int...

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