Jazz Articles about Dave Holland

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2013 Says "Hi"

by Patrick Burnette
April 15, 2025

The venerable bastards have made it to their twelfth anniversary, so time to dress us in silk and pearls (if you weren't already in your fantasies). While you attempt to scrub that hideous image from your minds, we'll mention that today's episode looks back to 2013, the origin year of the podcast, covering five releases from that epochal year we missed. Can you guess who appears for the first time on the 'cast and exactly which ways he's oriented?

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Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland: United

by Ian Patterson
February 8, 2025

Why did they not think of this before? A fair question. But as the Greek poet Homer put it, even a fool is wise after the event. “Why did you not think of it before?," Homer might have retorted. Yes, the music on United is so sublime, so natural sounding, that guitarist Lionel Loueke and bassist Dave Holland seem like old duo soulmates. The truth, however, is different. While the pair have played together in various settings, they had never ...

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The Dave Holland New Quartet at Smoke Jazz Club

by Paul Reynolds
September 10, 2024

The Dave Holland New Quartet Smoke Jazz & Supper Club New York, NYSeptember 6, 2024 The Friday late set at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club by the Dave Holland New Quartet began and ended with selections that strutted the bassist's strongest compositional suit--originals with a twirling head (as in a melodic theme) interspersed with solos that dance between harmonic calm and “out" exploration. If the middle of the set was less compelling--with its shift into ...

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John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette: Gateway

by Mike Jurkovic
July 27, 2024

Maybe in a world a-tuned to the sound of people seeking their own expressive modal dialogue to negotiate, barter, pray or prevent the king's rise, Gateway would have been the greatest jazz guitar trio album ever made. It certainly feels that way when one slips this handsome disc from its wrappings, handle gently to the turntable, and set the stylus down. It is like 1975 again (the good parts anyway): the head high, the mood mellow. Maybe one ...

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JAZZINEC Festival 2024

by Luciano Rossetti
July 6, 2024

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Torino Jazz Festival 2024, Part 1

by Antonio Baiano
May 2, 2024

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The Electric Years Box Set

by Mike Jurkovic
November 9, 2023

In a year that has brought us a true bounty of previously unheard majesty including Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy (Impulse!), and Bill Evans; Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings from Denmark (1965-1969), (Elemental Music) it is only fitting that Miles Davis get his due. And in a very, very big way. Seared into modern memory, modern art, the music presented on the gloriously massive, eleven LP set Miles Davis: The Electric Years ...