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Label Challenge Records |
UPC 0608917346626 |
Catalogue number CR 73466 |
Release date 06 March 2020 |
"... All eight compositions pass at a time like a petal in a small stream - slow and lazy, but hymnic and balladic!"
skjazz.sk, 04-9-2020Gulli Gudmundsson, born in Iceland in 1971 plays double bass since an early age. After attending music school in his homeland, he moved to the Netherlands and enrolled at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1993 where he studied with Jacques Schols, Frans van der Hoeven en Hein van de Geyn. Graduating in 1999 he quickly assimilated into the Dutch jazz scene, playing with most prominent players and appearing on more than 40 records.
He has toured to in about every European country and as well in Asia, Africa, North- and South America, and played on festivals such as North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, Jarasum South Korea, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Hong Kong Jazz Festival and Belgrade Jazz Festival to name a few.
In 2005 he joined Eric Vloeimans Gatecrash, whose record ‘Gatecrashing’ won the prestigious Edison awards in 2007.
Gulli also plays with the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet and which won the prestigious Dutch Edison awards for Best Jazz Record in 2016 (Desire, Challenge Records) and Best Jazz Record in 2017 (Goldbrun, Challenge Records).
Gulli is a member of the Wolfert Brederode Trio, which recorded ‘Black Ice’ for the prestigious ECM label in 2016, which was received with universal acclaim from a global audience.
He writes and produces his own music under the name Binary Orchid. The CD ‘Radioactivity’ appeared in 2006 featuring Arve Henriksen on Trumpet.
Gulli taught main subject Double Bass at the Conservatory of Antwerpen from 2003 to 2006, and teaches at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague since 2018.
... All eight compositions pass at a time like a petal in a small stream - slow and lazy, but hymnic and balladic!
skjazz.sk, 04-9-2020
Yuri's own way ...
De nieuwe Muze, 04-9-2020
... Congenially he is accompanied on the album by his acoustic quartet around Wolfert Brederode (piano), Gulli Gudmundsson (bass) and Joost Lijbaart (drums). Recommended!
Inmusic, 01-8-2020
Literature, painting, history, jazz and classical music: it all comes together on the albums with his acoustic quartet.
Enola.be, 09-6-2020
With Bluebeard, Yuri Honing has pulled off something quite exceptional.
Sandy Brown Jazz, 01-6-2020
Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing’s tenor horn floats with melancholic grace through this album
The Scotsman, 30-5-2020
Deeply lyrical, meditative and uplifting, Bluebeard is a fine addition to Honing's impressive discography, and a high-water mark in the quartet's trajectory thus far.
All about Jazz, 26-5-2020
His sound and approach are mirrored by his bandmates, who are equally adept at such a distinctive form of creativity. The resulting album is the perfect partner for a few minutes of quiet, individual, reflection—an ideal way to diminish stress and wallow in the beauty of the music.
All about Jazz, 14-5-2020
... With big breath and an even bigger tone on the tenor saxophone Honing plays his way through the winding paths and the rhythm section harmoniously strikes out in other interesting ways again and again...
Jazz'n More, 12-5-2020
Yuri Honing Quartet creates new poetry with "Bluebeard"
Jazznu, 08-5-2020
Three years after the success of Goldbrun, Yuri Honing presents his new descendant Bluebeard. The theme refers to the dark fairytale that has many faces. The saxophonist naturally gives it his own twist. "Composing is nothing more than using your imagination."
Jazzism, 24-4-2020
Bluebeard crawls under your skin and shows the different faces of ominousness. Love and power can be a dangerous combination. And that sounds in this case - wonderful.
Jazzism, 24-4-2020
Bluebeard is the third CD of this quartet and a provisional highlight. Thematically, the music tells the story of King Bluebeard who murdered his seven wives. The pieces sometimes sound threatening and ominous, but the refined harmonies certainly have a comforting and healing function.
nederlands dagblad, 10-4-2020
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hessischer Rundfunk, 02-4-2020
The saxophonist Yuri Honing, when creating the songs for his latest album, was inspired by the 17th century legend about Sinobrody.
Jazz Press/ Poland, 02-4-2020
... Honing breathes with his saxophone, but not in the style of Ben Webster, but then already more like Garbarek and other Nordic colleagues, in the mood carrying far away, seemingly lost in thought, trance-like and floating...
Musik an Sich, 02-4-2020
The music explodes with restraint.
Le Soir, 01-4-2020
... Be that as it may. Bluebeard by the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet is an acoustic gem that friends of relaxed sounds should definitely listen into.
highresmac, 29-3-2020
Indescribable beauty ... Interaction of an eerily high level. Plate of the year.
Het Parool, 28-3-2020
Intimate and very atmospheric. “Bluebeard”, the new, magnificent CD by Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet.
Stretto, 28-3-2020
The music is characterized by poetry, great musicality, transparency and space, in which every note, every tone inflection, every chord and every slap and swipe matter and seem to reveal to us deep secrets, without ever being able to find words for it.
Het Parool, 24-3-2020
The Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing should actually have been headlining the big festivals long ago and leading the charts with his recordings. After all, he has been one of the outstanding aesthetes of his instrument for a quarter of a century, and on "Bluebeard" he also shows that his tenor tone is hard to beat in terms of delicacy and suppleness...
Jazzthing, 24-3-2020
... music imbued with solemnity, with 'claires obscures' coloring, of an alto with clear sound, smooth, without roughness, and well supported by fluid piano playing by Wolfert Brederode, sometimes accompanied by some notes of vibraphone ('Bluebeard Maze'). Gulli Gudmundsson's double bass has a beautiful sound, full of lyricism and Joost Lijbaart plays his drums with such delicately.
Music that evokes an atmosphere very close to ECM albums.
jazzhalo, 19-3-2020
Dreaming and wandering with Bluebeard.
NRC, 19-3-2020
...This album is characterized by mature artistic expression and emotion in the recordings of all instrumentalists. I like their interesting, imaginative improvisations, the wide range of articulation and technical means they use, the consistency in building their stylistic idea, the mutual inspiration, the full partnership and the great musicality.
Jazz Fun, 16-3-2020
Another impressive album from the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet.
Rootstime, 06-3-2020
... for the time being there is this beautiful album, on which Honing takes you along with pianist Wolfert Brederode, bassist Gulli Gudmundsson and drummer Joost Lijbaart on a discovery tour through the bluebeard catacombs, where you are immersed in fountains of music in hidden rooms.
Mania, 06-3-2020
Every note from Yuri Honing is striking on his album Bluebeard.
De Volkskrant, 05-3-2020