Jazz Articles about Dave Holland

About Dave Holland

Album Review

Bassist Dave Holland first became a leader-on-record with Conference Of The Birds (ECM, 1973), a now-classic outré quartet session. That initial leader date portrayed Holland as a restless seeker, willing and eager to explore the inner workings of group dynamics and the outer reaches of convention, and he's done little to alter that perception of himself in the intervening years. Holland has, with band after band and album after album, continually broadened his outlook, creating a vast and enviable body ...

Album Review

Dave Holland: Prism

by J Hunter
August 27, 2013

Although über-bassist Dave Holland made his bones with one of Miles Davis' early electric bands, the lion's share of the British native's own music has come from the acoustic side of the scale. As such, longtime Holland fans will receive a major shock with their first listen to Prism. Those fans will need open ears and patience; everyone else just needs a volume control that goes to 11. The opening Fender Rhodes vamp on Kevin Eubanks' “The ...

Live Review

Dave Holland: San Francisco, CA, February 7-10, 2013

by Harry S. Pariser
February 27, 2013

Dave Holland ResidencySan Francisco Jazz CenterSan Francisco, CAFebruary 7-10, 2013 Dave Holland was beaming ear to ear. And he had every reason to be, as the 66-year-old bassist was center stage helping to inaugurate a magnificent new hall, the showplace of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. The past two weeks had marked the first that the center had been open, and while a multitude of acts had performed, these had been special as opposed to ...

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Live Review

Dave Holland Big Band: Philadelphia, December 11, 2010

by Dylan McGuire
December 31, 2010

Dave Holland Big BandPainted Bride Art CenterPhiladelphia, PADecember 11, 2010 Bassist and jazz music legend Dave Holland says he is a believer in the communal spirit of music and, judging by the scope of talent in his Big Band--as well as the enthusiastic capacity crowd at his shows at the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia on Dec. 11--the community is happy to embrace his vision.Although it only makes a few appearances ...

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From Far and Wide

Dave Holland: Passing the Torch

by Dylan McGuire
December 31, 2010

Standing onstage in the auditorium of the Philadelphia School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), a lanky, grey-haired gentleman stands by the piano, directing a small group of student musicians playing Herbie Hancock's “Cantaloupe Island." He stops the song during the trumpet solo and says to the student in a British accent, “Did you listen to the recording?" The student looks at his feet and replies, “No." “You always have to listen to the ...

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Album Review

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela: Hands

Read "Hands" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
December 25, 2010

The music on Hands, featuring stellar turns primarily from Spanish guitarist Pepe Habichuela and British-born bassist Dave Holland, is quite simply one of the most captivating on record. It is completely an alternative to style, to mere virtuosity, and to angelic grace and charm, as dictated by a muse. This music is the epitomé of the darkly beautiful magnetism of duende, and comes not from the hands and the fingers of the musicians, but rather from their innermost being--from the ...

Album Review

Dave Holland - Pepe Habichuela: Hands

Read "Hands" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 27, 2010

Nella sua lunghissima carriera il bassista inglese Dave Holland ha sempre dimostrato di essere pronto a mettersi al servizio di ogni buon progetto che la sorte e la lungimiranza gli hanno fatto incrociare. Le sue straordinarie doti artistiche non sono disgiunte dalle sue eccellenti doti umane e i suoi sodalizi godono di questa fortunata combinazione che non sempre ci è dato di trovare nei territori della musica e dell'arte, spesso guastati da forme di egomania devastanti e immotivate. Questo bel ...