Jazz Articles about Dave Holland

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Michel Petrucciani / Dave Holland / Eliot Zigmund: Kuumbwa

by Jack Bowers
August 11, 2026

Michel Petrucciani was not blessed with a long life. What the French-born jazz pianist was blessed with was an enormous talent, one most people could not amass in several lifetimes. Petrucciani was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disease that led to brittle bones, stunted his growth and left him in almost constant pain--the sort of ailment that would cause many lesser men to simply throw in the towel and retreat. Petrucianni never even gave that a passing ...

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Michel Petrucciani: Kuumbwa

by Stefano Merighi
July 13, 2026

Alla fine del suo ricordo personale, contenuto nel libretto di questo doppio album, Enrico Pieranunzi si rammarica di come, in qualche modo, Michel Petrucciani sia stato dimenticato dal mondo del jazz. Il mondo a cui aveva donato tutto se stesso. Escluso da una vita “regolare," condannato dall'osteogenesi imperfecta a far convivere intelligenza e sensibilità sopraffine in un corpo dolente, Michel trovava nella musica il suo riscatto emozionale, un elemento da controllare e dominare a piacimento, consapevole invece che il tempo ...

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Miles Davis' 3rd Quintet: Reference: Bitches Brew Live 1969 In Europe

by Mark Corroto
July 11, 2026

For Miles Davis, timing was everything. His music rarely stood still long enough for audiences to catch up. The Columbia releases of Filles de Kilimanjaro (January 29, 1969) and In a Silent Way (July 30, 1969) marked the decisive bridge between his acoustic past and electric future. Yet Davis was already moving beyond that bridge before listeners had a chance to cross it. Less than a month after In a Silent Way reached record stores, he assembled musicians for what ...

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Michel Petrucciani: Kuumbwa

by Pierre Giroux
April 18, 2026

Michel Petrucciani's Kuumbwa is the type of release that reminds us why live jazz recordings still matter. This is not a vault-cleaning exercise, nor just a historical note. Recorded at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, in 1987, it is now released by Elemental Music, first as an exclusive two-LP Record Store Day set, with CD and digital editions to follow. This excellent recording captures Michel Petrucciani in one of his most exciting trio settings, alongside longtime drummer ...

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Michel Petrucciani: Kuumbwa

by Jack Kenny
April 16, 2026

Recorded live on May 11, 1987, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, this album catches pianist Michel Petrucciani during an inspired phase of his career. It was not his first visit to the venue. While living in Big Sur--about an hour south of Santa Cruz--Petrucciani had befriended saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who was on a hiatus from music. Encouraged by the young French pianist, Lloyd gradually resumed playing, eventually forming a duo with Petrucciani that performed at the ...

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Dave Holland & Lionel Loueke at Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa

by Marek J. Śmietański
April 7, 2026

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Dave Holland / Norma Winstone / London Vocal Project directed by Pete Churchill: Vital Spark

by Neil Duggan
February 13, 2026

Dave Holland, Norma Winstone and the London Vocal Project, directed by Pete Churchill, combine to present Vital Spark, an album featuring a collection of Kenny Wheeler compositions for choir and jazz ensemble, written in the last period of his life.Seven of the nine pieces on the album were mailed to Churchill over the course of a few years. He managed to resolve and arrange these part-formed fragments. Winstone added her lyrics, alongside Wheeler's settings of poems by Stevie Smith, Lewis ...