The Long Awaited Follow Up Album from the Rembrandt Trio in Pure DSD 256!

The Golden Hour Sessions: Audiophile Jazz Recordings follows The Blue Hour Sessions; Audiophile Jazz Recordings, one of the best-selling releases at NativeDSD. 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
Liner notes by Rembrandt Frerichs