This is not David Bowie Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet

• 1 The Man Who’s Sold The World 04:52
• 2 Warszawa 06:03
• 3 Lady Grinnin’ Soul 03:06
• 4 John, I’m Only Dancing 04:19
• 5 Sunday 06:41
• 6 I Can’t Give Everything Away 03:02
• 7 Heathen (The Rays) 03:56
• 8 Letter To Hermione 03:26
• 9 Sweet Thing 04:40
• Total Runtime 40:05

Info for This is not David Bowie

With This is not David Bowie, the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet does not present a traditional tribute, but a personal reflection on what Bowie represented: freedom, transformation, and the courage to cross boundaries.

For Yuri Honing, Bowie was an early source of inspiration not only musically, but above all through his uncompromising drive to reinvent himself. That same spirit runs through Honing’s own work, shaped by jazz, improvisation, visual art, literature, pop, rock, classical music, non-Western traditions, and electronics.

The quartet reapproaches Bowie’s music through its own language. Using fragments of compositions, harmonies, atmospheres, and ideas as starting points, the musicians create new interpretations in which melodies may remain recognizable or only the spirit of a song lingers.

This project is therefore not about imitation or nostalgia. It is about curiosity, imagination, and the ongoing search for new artistic connections. Just as Bowie continually opened new worlds, the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet explores how music can keep moving forward without losing its identity.

Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet:
Yuri Honing, tenor saxophone
Joost Lijbaart, drums
Gulli Gudmundsson, double bass
Wolfert Brederode, piano

Yuri Honing
is one of the Netherlands’ major saxophonists according to the Penguin Guide to Jazz and the Oxford guide to jazz.

Honing performed with the likes of Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Ibrahim Malooff, Craig Taborn and Paul Bley. In 2001 Honing received the Edison Jazz Award (Dutch Grammy) for his recording Seven, with Paul Bley, Gary Peacock en Paul Motion.

Apart from recording with his own groups he also recorded with the godfather of Dutch improv, Mischa Mengelberg, was leading a group called the ‘Oriënt Express’, based on a mix of jazz and traditional music from the Middle East, performed Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Nora Mulder, and recorded an album with orchestra (Symphonic) with works arranged by Vince Mendoza.

Honing has been leading his acoustic quartet with Wolfert Brederode on piano, the Icelandic bass player Gulli Gudmundsson and Joost Lijbaart on drums.

The quartet performed at most major festivals in Europa, Asia en South America.

In 2012 Yuri Honing was awarded the Boy Edgar Prize, the most prestigious jazz award in the Netherlands.

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