Yuri Honing - tenor & soprano saxophone
Tony Overwater - double bass
Joost Lijbaart - drums

For more than 15 years the Yuri Honing Trio have been on the cutting edge of Dutch music scene. These three musicians form one of the most internationally successful Dutch jazz groups of today. The trio is centred around Yuri Honing, a brilliant saxophone player and composer who has been considered one of the leading Dutch voices in jazz since the nineties. Besides Yuri Honing, the trio consists of Tony Overwater, Holland’s most extraordinary bass player and Joost Lijbaart, one of the most innovative drummers in Holland. While touring in more than 40 countries around the world, the Yuri Honing Trio have built a unique personal style which is based on jazz, pop music and non-western musical traditions.

Yuri Honing Trio
Biography

The Yuri Honing Trio, founded in 1990, make their international breakthrough in 1996 with the release of their CD Star Tracks, an album based on pop songs, later followed by Sequel. Both albums reach sales far beyond any expectation and give the trio a place in every jazz encyclopaedia published since. In 2003 they release Orient Express, which was nominated for an Edison (Dutch Grammy), bringing together classical Arab music and European progressive jazz by inviting remarkable musicians from the Middle East. In 2004 the trio present Alive, their first-ever live album, recorded at the famous Bimhuis in Amsterdam.
While touring in more than 40 countries around the world, the Yuri Honing Trio have built a unique personal style which is based on jazz, pop music and non-western musical traditions. Because of the variety of musical material they have chosen to work with and the way they play it, the music always remains accessible. All three musicians are not only appreciated for their striking musical and technical skills on their instruments and their collaboration as a trio, but also for their numerous compositions which have added to their success as individual artists and as a group.

Yuri Honing Trio reviewed
Press quotes

The trio have developed such an understanding that the music just flows
-The Herald

You will be hard pressed to find a better live jazz CD this year
- Indigoflow (about Alive)

Full of expressiveness and lyricism (.... ) they gave an impeccable concert and made clear why they are so acclaimed in the European jazz circuit
- Buenos Aires Herald

The ultimate declaration of love by three natural performers who speak a unique language once they are on stage
- Telegraaf (about Alive)

One of the most creative, fearless and alert jazz units of the moment
- The Times

From note one you know that saxophonist Honing has ‘got it’ and that tone can cut through your soul!
- The Independent

These Dutchmen seemed more in touch with jazz's rich tradition than Wynton Marsalis
- The Sydney Morning Herald

Honing and his men have the estimable advantage of freshness, a clear musical identity and talent to burn, allied to a truly unusual degree of eloquence
- Jazzwise

A hell of a saxophone player!
- Herald Tribune