The Golden Hour Sessions Rembrandt Frerichs Trio

• 1 You do something to me (Cole Porter) 04:17
• 2 Bess, you is my woman now (George Gershwin) 04:39
• 3 Dream dancing (Cole Porter) 04:46
• 4 Spring can really hang you up the most (Tommy Wolf) 06:47
• 5 Mood indigo (Duke Ellington) 05:35
• 6 Somewhere over the rainbow (Harold Arlen) 04:51
• 7 So many stars (Sérgio Mendes) 05:28
• 8 If you could see me now (Tadd Dameron) 05:44
• 9 I'll be seeing you (Sammy Fain) 05:04
• Total Runtime 47:11

Info for The Golden Hour Sessions

The Golden Hour Sessions follows The Blue Hour Sessions album. Where that album explored the mystery after sunset, this one embraces the warmth just before it.

Some melodies gather beauty as the years pass. On The Golden Hour Sessions, pianist Rembrandt Frerichs returns to the standards of the Great American Songbook with bassist Jos Machtel and drummer Vinsent Planjer, guided by the question behind every jazz performance worth hearing: what does this music have to say today?

The title refers to that brief window before sunset when the light turns warm and everything softens. Photographers treasure it because it cannot be staged, and it never lasts. Frerichs hears improvisation the same way. The finest moments on this album were never planned. They arrived when listening to Machtel and Planjer became more important than deciding what to play next. In the spirit of Wayne Shorter’s “you can’t rehearse the unknown”, post-production was kept to a minimum: what you hear is the music exactly as it unfolded in the room, over two days in Herwijnen, the Netherlands.

Frerichs plays a rare Steinway Model C, an instrument whose long, singing sustain lets each phrase linger a little longer, like the last light before dusk.

Rembrandt Frerichs, piano (Steinway Model C)
Jos Machtel, double bass
Vinsent Planjer, drums

Recorded by Jared Sacks in Herwijnen, the Netherlands at Banana Bread Studio
Mastering by Tom Caulfield

Rembrandt Frerichs Trio
Rembrandt Frerichs, Tony Overwater and Vinsent Planjer have been playing together in different projects and constellations for many years, returning to the basic shape of the trio every so often, as a balance point in their continuous development.

Rembrandt Frerichs, pianist and composer, is known for his broad perspective, his artistic journey constantly deepening into new territories. Rembrandt is familiar with American jazz tradition, but he avoids the well-trodden path. He’s deeply interested in art music from different parts of the world and investigates the limits of classical, improvised and world music, experimenting with the sounds of early music and oriental instruments, and bringing elements of baroque and Middle Eastern music into his compositions and improvisations.

Bass player Tony Overwater is an award-winning solo performer, leader of self-initiated projects and a collaborative sideman. Overwater developed a unique playing style on the acoustic bass which allows him to play the microtonality of the Arab scales, and had a copy of a 16th century six-string violone built especially for him to expand his sonal possibilities.

Drummer-percussionist Vinsent Planjer has found his voice in a wide range of musical settings. With an emphasis on jazz, he has also shared the stage with actors and dancers in the world of theater. As part of the Rembrandt Trio, Planjer developed his signature drum set, the so-called ‘Whisper Kit’; an eclectic mix of percussion instruments from all over the world, partly self-built.

The trio as a core group collaborated and recorded seven albums with many different artists from varying musical backgrounds, from their very first album in 2010 (Levantasy, with Yoram Lachish) to last year’s collaboration with Hossein Alizadeh on ‘Same Self, Same Silence’. But in between tours and collaborations, they always come back to their essence, recording three trio-albums in 2014, 2018 and 2019 respectively. ‘A Wind Invisible Sweeps Us Through The World’ is the fourth - documenting a growing bond between the three musicians, with more and more shared life to bring into their playing.

This album contains no booklet.