Heaven on My Mind marks the tenth anniversary of the Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet. On this fifth album of the group, saxophonist Yuri Honing expresses his love for the free-thinking acoustic jazz that emerged in the 1960s alongside the hippie movement. This spiritual style of jazz was spearheaded by saxophone players Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders, among others.

Yuri Honing has collaborated with Pat Metheny, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charlie Haden, Ibrahim Maalouf and many others. Following his Edison Award-winning collaboration with pianist Paul Bley, he won the most important Dutch jazz award in 2012, the Boy Edgar Prize. ‘True’, the opening track of his eponymous album, has been included in the top Dutch jazz compositions by leading Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant.

Yuri Honing tenor sax, Wolfert Brederode piano, Gulli Gudmundsson bass, Joost Lijbaart drums