Dave Holland is a bassist, composer, bandleader whose passion for musical expression of all styles, and dedication to creating consistently innovative music ensembles have propelled a professional career of more than 50 years, and earned him top honors in his field including multiple Grammy awards and the title of NEA Jazz Master in 2017. From the electric whirlwind of Miles Davis’ electric band to the pioneering avant-garde quartet Circle to his own acclaimed big band, Holland has been at the forefront of jazz in many of its forms since his earliest days. He has never stopped evolving, reinventing his concept and approach with each new project while constantly honing his instantly identifiable voice. The Boston Globe praises Holland as “a master bassist and bandleader, one of the most sophisticated composers and arrangers in the jazz world.”
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Official Website: www.daveholland.com
Label: Dare2 Records
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Dave Holland Name one of the best bass players of all time
From Guitar World The 100 best bass players of all time By: BASS PLAYER STAFF “First published in 2017: What is it about lists? People love making them, reading them, and listening to them. Lists bring order to chaos. They help us remember things. They’re easy to scan. They promise instant knowledge. And they give us an opportunity to disagree....
Posted Jan 8th, 2020
PopMatters: Best Jazz of 2018
From PopMatters The Best Jazz of 2018 By: Justin Cober-Lake and Will Layman Congratulations to IMN Artists Dave Holland and Joe Lovano for their placement on PopMatter’s list of “Best Instrumental Modern Jazz.” Dave Holland ‘” Uncharted Territories These days it’s easy to forget that bassist Dave Holland ‘” who has been part of the music’s tasteful but adventurous mainstream...
Posted Dec 2nd, 2018
Fresh, Resolute and Contemporary
From Financial Times Dave Holland: Uncharted Territories ‘” ‘fresh, resolute and contemporary’ By: Mike Hobart The uncharted territories that the British bass player Dave Holland explores on this engrossing release are the in-the-moment creations of a cross-generational, equal-partners, transatlantic quartet. The terrain varies from the phantasmagorical shapes of tonal abstraction to clean-lined lyricism that pulsates with warmth. And with different...
Posted May 14th, 2018
Dave Holland: ‘Uncharted Territories’
From Something Else Reviews! Dave Holland ‘” Uncharted Territories (2018) By: S. Victor Aaron The genesis for these new free improv sessions Uncharted Territories (May 11, 2018 by Dare2 Records) goes back even further, to Dave Holland’s pre-New York days and his association with UK sax giant Evan Parker. As fledgling unknowns, the two had played together in John Stevens’...
Posted May 11th, 2018
Take Five: Riveting New Music
From WBGO: Take Five Take Five: Riveting New Music by María Grand, Kenny Barron, Román Filiú, Ben Wendel and Dave Holland By: Nate Chinen Ben Wendel with Walter Smith III, ‘Cherokee’ This is ‘Cherokee,’ obviously, a test of mettle for jazz soloists since its invention 80 years ago. The friend in question is Walter Smith III, another tenor player who...
Posted May 5th, 2018
Dave Holland Premieres New Track
From Paste Magazine Jazz Bassist Dave Holland Premieres Track From New Album Uncharted Territories By: Robert Ham […] Joining Holland on this recording are saxophonist Evan Parker, drummer Ches Smith and pianist Craig Taborn. The epic-length album finds the group breaking off into various permutations, and coming back together again for quartet performances. As you’ll hear from this one excerpt,...
Posted Apr 27th, 2018
Dave Holland’s “Q&A”
From JazzTimes JT Track Premiere: Dave Holland’s ‘Q&A’ By: JazzTimes On May 11, bassist and composer Dave Holland will release Uncharted Territories, a new album featuring his longtime friend and collaborator Evan Parker on saxophone, along with pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Ches Smith. The group is featured in varied combinations of duos and trios, in addition to the quartet...
Posted Apr 16th, 2018
Bass Maestro At SFJAZZ Center
From CBS SF Bay Area Bass Maestro Holds Forth At SFJAZZ Center By: Dave Pehling One of the most important musicians to emerge from the British jazz scene during the 1960s, legendary bassist Dave Holland comes to the SFJAZZ Center for four nights of music starting Thursday. Holland has been a regular attraction at the SFJAZZ Center, anchoring a similar...
Posted Mar 22nd, 2018
Favorite Dave Holland Recordings
From SFJAZZ Snarky Puppy’s Michael League Picks His Favorite Dave Holland Recordings By: Michael League Dave’s actually my favorite double bassist, alongside Ray Brown. I did a research project on him in college in which I transcribed various solos and bass lines, and he was kind enough to allow me to interview him. I was 20 and he had no...
Posted Feb 28th, 2018
A bass odyssey: the stellar career of British jazz man Dave Holland
From Financial Times A bass odyssey: the stellar career of British jazz man Dave Holland By: Mike Hobart When the bass player Dave Holland was given two days’ notice to get himself over from London to New York to join Miles Davis’s band, he had never played alongside or indeed even spoken to the great trumpeter. And by the time...
Posted Nov 7th, 2017
The 2017 NEA Jazz Masters
From NPR The 2017 NEA Jazz Masters, In Their Own Words By: Nate Chinen In this episode, Jazz Night in America explores the artists’ origin stories: how, why and when they got their starts. Rare, live recordings of Holland and Bridgewater were unearthed from the NPR archive. Hyman joins the program from Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Smith from The...
Posted Apr 20th, 2017
Preview: Dave Holland Trio
From OREGON ARTSWATCH Dave Holland Trio preview: All about the bass By: Angela Allen Even before he steps onstage for his Friday concert in Portland, Dave Holland has made a sizable contribution to Oregon jazz. The world renowned jazz bassist owns the upright bass instrument that belonged to the late ‘The Walker’ Leroy Vinnegar. ‘Rather, I’m its custodian,’ Holland said...
Posted Apr 5th, 2017
NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert
From WABE 90.1: Where Atlanta Meets NPR The NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert Transcends Its Fraught Political Moment By: Nate Chinen Holland, who grew up in England, recalled moving to New York at the invitation of Miles Davis: “I came as an immigrant,” he said, in another line that elicited applause. He also spoke up in favor of more childhood...
Posted Apr 4th, 2017
All for One, One for All: Dave Holland in Conversation
Vortex Music Magazine All for One, One for All: Dave Holland in Conversation By: Nathan Rizzo The talismanic jazz bassist speaks with Vortex in advance of his can’t-miss April 7 performance at Portland’s Revolution Hall. After five decades, 40-plus albums as a bandleader, and nearly double that number as a sideman, Dave Holland is still making music that matters. Once...
Posted Apr 4th, 2017
Dave Holland: NEA Jazz Master!
Congratulations to Dave Holland on being named one of this year’s NEA Jazz Masters! From The National Endowment for the Arts Each year since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has conferred the NEA Jazz Masters award. With this new class, the NEA has awarded 145 fellowships to great figures in jazz. More information about the NEA Jazz Masters...
Posted Jun 14th, 2016
Review: Dave Holland Trio in a Bracingly Uncorked Evening at the Village Vanguard
From The New York Times Review: Dave Holland Trio in a Bracingly Uncorked Evening at the Village Vanguard By Nate Chinen Opening night of a newly incorporated jazz group’s residency can be a crapshoot. Conventional wisdom holds that as time progresses, the music will only get better. But there are provisos and exceptions, most of which were manifest in the...
Posted Feb 18th, 2016
REVIEW: Dave Holland’s Prism at Ronnie Scott’s
From London Jazz REVIEW: Dave Holland’s Prism at Ronnie Scott’s By Michael Underwood Dave Holland’s Prism took to the stage at Ronnie Scott’s last night to deliver a breathtakingly audacious performance. The set they performed felt far shorter than the two hours it was. Dave Holland’s bass harmonic tuning notes led into the first piece of the gig – his...
Posted Jul 7th, 2014
Bass great Dave Holland making music again with pal Kevin Eubanks
From The Morning Journal Tri-C JazzFest preview: Bass great Dave Holland making music again with pal Kevin Eubanks By Mark Meszoros Last year, the jazz quartet Dave Holland & Prism put out the album ‘Prism.’ The rockin’, funky effort came 40 years after bassist Holland became a bandleader with the release of ‘‘Conference of the Birds,’ that coming after years...
Posted Jun 20th, 2014
Dave Holland’s Prism Comes to Cambridge
From The Harvard Crimson Dave Holland’s Prism Comes to Cambridge By Jacob W. Gollub On Feb. 13, I joined a large crowd on the third floor of the Charles Hotel. Here at the Regattabar, a world-class jazz club, we waited for the 10 p.m. set by Dave Holland’s newest ensemble, ‘Prism.’ Led by Holland, a living legend on the stand-up...
Posted Feb 24th, 2014
Hear Kenny Barron And Dave Holland At The Kennedy Center
From NPR Hear Kenny Barron And Dave Holland At The Kennedy Center February 13, 2014JazzSet celebrates the 70th birthday of NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron with new duets featuring bassist Dave Holland at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Plus, hear a solo Barron set from the Caramoor Jazz Festival. To stream the recording click here
Posted Feb 14th, 2014
Jazz-Funk Persuasion Rules the Night
From The New York Times Jazz-Funk Persuasion Rules the Night Dave Holland Comes to Birdland With Kevin Eubanks By Nate Chinen The album of the year in 1989, according to Down Beat magazine’s annual critics’ poll, was ‘Extensions,’ an imposingly strong debut by the Dave Holland Quartet. Featuring Mr. Holland on bass, Steve Coleman on alto saxophone, Kevin Eubanks on...
Posted Dec 3rd, 2013
A Conversation with Dave Holland
From The Huffington Post A Conversation with Dave Holland By Mike Ragogna Mike Ragogna: So Dave Holland, what inspired this configuration of players to come up with your album Prism? Dave Holland: It started with me wanting to set up a situation for Kevin Eubanks and I to get back together again and do some playing. We’d been talking on...
Posted Oct 14th, 2013
KTVU.com talks to jazz legend Dave Holland
From KTVU.com KTVU.com talks to jazz legend Dave Holland By Dave Pehling SAN FRANCISCO ‘” Arguably the most respected bassist in the world of jazz, timekeeper Dave Holland has been at the cutting edge of some of the great ensembles in the business ever since anchoring the bottom during Miles Davis’ shift to his groundbreaking electric fusion sound in the...
Posted Oct 4th, 2013
Jazz master Dave Holland keeps creative process flowing with Prism
From The Los Angeles Times Jazz master Dave Holland keeps creative process flowing with Prism Electric quartet Prism is just the latest project for the busy Dave Holland, one of the headliners at the upcoming Angel City Jazz Festival. By Chris Barton At an age when most people are easing into retirement, 67-year-old bassist Dave Holland can’t stop working. Popping...
Posted Oct 1st, 2013
Dave Holland’s ‘Prism’ Goes To 11, Elegantly
From NPR Dave Holland’s ‘Prism’ Goes To 11, Elegantly By Kevin Whitehead The quartet on jazz bassist Dave Holland’s new album Prism is more electrified, and usually louder, than bands he’s led before. Some reviewers see its music coming out of his early work with the electrified Miles Davis, but the parallel doesn’t go far. Holland played bass guitar with...
Posted Sep 30th, 2013
Review: Dave Holland’s jazz quartet gets electric
From TwinCities.com Review: Dave Holland’s jazz quartet gets electric By Dan Emerson Englishman Dave Holland, whose quartet completed a two-night stand at the Dakota jazz club Sunday night, has always been known as an acoustic bassist. But he’s no stranger to “electric” jazz, which he played early in his career with Miles Davis’ fusion group and periodically with his own...
Posted Sep 29th, 2013
Dave Holland: Prism
From Pop Matters Dave Holland: Prism By Will Layman In the early 1970s, if you were listening to instrumental music played by electric guitar, electric keyboards, and very busy drums, all executing tricky business and intricate patterns that would explode into fireworks of improvising, you were a fusion fan. ‘Fusion’ was a kind of jazz-rock music that blossomed brilliantly for...
Posted Sep 4th, 2013
PRISM
From DL Media DAVE HOLLAND – PRISM: NEW QUARTET, ALBUM, AND MUSICAL DIRECTION, AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 3 ON DARE2 RECORDS PRISM FEATURES KEVIN EUBANKS, CRAIG TABORN & ERIC HARLAND Project Marks 40 Years Since Holland’s Debut Recording as a Leader In the 40 years since Dave Holland’s recording debut as a leader, with his landmark album, Conference of the Birds, the...
Posted Sep 3rd, 2013
Kenny Barron And Dave Holland On JazzSet
from NPR Music Kenny Barron And Dave Holland On JazzSet JazzSet celebrates the 70th birthday of NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron with new duets featuring bassist Dave Holland at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Plus, hear a solo Barron set from the Caramoor Jazz Festival. To hear the full recording click here
Posted May 31st, 2013
Barron and Holland are as good as it gets
From The Washington Post Kenny Barron and Dave Holland are as good as it gets, but it’s discipline that defines them By Michael J. West Not every duet is an ‘intimate’ one. Pianist Kenny Barron and bassist Dave Holland, two of the finest musicians alive ‘” Barron is an NEA Jazz Master; Holland should be one ‘” have worked together...
Posted Apr 29th, 2013
Holland started at the top, still there 40 years later
from www.mlive.com Jazz bassist Dave Holland started at the top, still there 40 years later By: Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk GRAND RAPIDS, MI ‘” Jazz bassist Dave Holland broke into the business behind the jazz trumpet great Miles Davis. When you start at the top, they say, there’s no place left to go but down. Except Holland stayed there. The past 40...
Posted Jan 28th, 2013
Dave Holland faz show irretocável em São Paulo
From Rolling Stone Dave Holland faz show irretocável em São Paulo By: ANTÓNIO DO AMARAL ROCHA O britânico Dave Holland, 66 anos, um dos baixistas acústicos mais aclamados em atividade, que já gravou com Miles Davis nos discos fundamentais do trompetista (In a Silent Way e Bitches Brew), voltou ao Brasil neste mês de novembro. A última vez que esteve...
Posted Dec 5th, 2012
Dave Holland talks about date at the Michigan Theater
from annarbor.com Jazz great Dave Holland talks about influences, rare Big Band date at the Michigan Theater By Kevin Ransom These days, Dave Holland’“one of the greatest jazz bassists / composers of the last 40-plus years, and a true jazz giant’“only breaks out his renowned Big Band on special occasions. That’s mostly due to economics: It’s just too costly to...
Posted Nov 14th, 2012
Dave Holland: Ottawa’s Artist-In-Residence
From The Ottawa Citizen The Ottawa Jazz Festival named Dave Holland their first ever Artist-In-Residence this year, knowing he would bring something special to their audience, and Holland did not disappoint. Doug Fisher and Peter Hum from the Ottawa Citizen had rave reviews for each of Holland’s ensembles that played the festival this weekend: Barron, Holland give fans the ideal...
Posted Jun 25th, 2012
When the Music and the Moment Come Together (the Dave Holland Profile)
From The Ottawa Citizen When the music and the moment come together (the Dave Holland profile) By:Peter Hum One day before Dave Holland was to perform at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway last year, the unthinkable happened. Last July 22, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik massacred 77 of his fellow Norwegians by bomb and by bullets. The following night,...
Posted Jun 18th, 2012
What is Jazz to You? Dave Holland & Jason Moran Respond
From Jazz Promo Services What is jazz to you? Dave Holland, Jason Moran and others share their thoughts. Tell us what jazz means to you and enter to win a pair of tickets to a concert in the new SFJAZZ Center! Our new home, scheduled to open January 2013, will be the first freestanding building in the western United States...
Posted May 21st, 2012
Mr. Dave Holland’s Ottawa Opus
From The Ottawa Citizen Mr. Dave Holland’s Ottawa Opus By: Peter Hum The acclaimed bassist and bandleader Dave Holland will be the 2012 Ottawa Jazz Festival’s artist-in-residence, performing in three concerts that showcase his versatility in late June. The 65-year-old British-born, upstate New York-based Holland, who last played in Ottawa in 2009 in Herbie Hancock’s star-studded band, will give two...
Posted Feb 27th, 2012
Dave Holland Octet vs. Mother Nature
From JazzTimes Detroit Jazz Festival, Day Two: Dave Holland, Jason Moran, Christian McBride & ‘¦ Mother Nature! By: Russ Davis I was asked by the folks who run the Detroit Jazz Festival to get a little more involved with the various features of the festival this year including being part of the streaming television feature JAZZ PLANET.tv, interviewing artists under...
Posted Sep 6th, 2011
Dave Holland Quintet at Blue Note Jazz Fest
From Blue Note The Dave Holland Quintet featuring Chris Potter, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson & Nate Smith performs at the Highline Ballroom as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival. For more information on the Blue Note Jazz Festival, please visit: http://bluenotejazzfestival.com/. Since its inception in 1981, The Blue Note Jazz Club has been a home for the world’s finest...
Posted Jul 5th, 2011
Playing with Dave Holland is “like riding in a Rolls Royce”
From The Montreal Gazette Montreal International Jazz Festival 2011: Dave Holland at Theatre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts; June 29, 2011 By: Peter Hadekel Dave Holland’s first two nights at the Invitation Series were a study in contrasts. On Tuesday the bass virtuoso took the stage at Theatre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts in the company of veteran New York...
Posted Jun 30th, 2011
Dave Holland Explores Varied Traditions
From The Montreal Gazette Holland Explores Varied Traditions Eclectic bandleader loves working with new rhythms and melodic ideas By: Peter Hadekel Dave Holland is not just a gifted bandleader, composer and improviser with a huge sound on the acoustic bass. He’s also a voracious student of other traditions. The British-born bassist recently recorded an album of Flamenco music with Spanish...
Posted Jun 27th, 2011
Dave Holland: Basso Nobile
From La Scena Musicale Dave Holland : Basso Nobile By: Marc Chénard There’s an old joke that goes like this: There once was an aging couple that hadn’t uttered a word to each other for years. Family and friends tried to get them talking, to no avail. One day, a musician brought a bandmate to play his bass for them....
Posted May 20th, 2011
REVIEW Dave Holland Leads Collective Improvisation
From The Philadelphia Inquirer Dave Holland Leads Collective Improvisation By: Kevin L. Carter Just as a basketball team with two great scorers has a problem – there’s only one ball – so does a big band with lots of great players. Are there enough notes in the room for everyone? While that’s not exactly a real concern, the presence of...
Posted Dec 13th, 2010
Ask Dave Holland
The second installment of “Ask Dave Holland” is up on Dave’s site now! Here’s a sample of this round’s questions: “Do you have a regular practice routine that you do, or in what ways to you organise your practice schedule?” – Luke Sellick I divide my time between technical practice and creative practice. Of course, the two areas overlap and...
Posted Dec 7th, 2010
Dave Holland Octet Nominated for Grammy
IMN congratulates the Dave Holland Octet on their Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy nomination for Pathways! Also nominated in that category are: 54 (Metropole Orkest, John Scofield & Vince Mendoza), Infernal Machines (Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society), Autumn: In Moving Pictures Jazz – Chamber Music Vol. 2 (Billy Childs Ensemble Featuring The Ying String Quartet), and Mingus Big Band...
Posted Nov 29th, 2010
Dave Holland Finds A New Journey In Flamenco
From NPR Dave Holland Finds A New Journey In Flamenco By: Banning Eyre British bassman Dave Holland has a resume that reads like a who’s who of jazz. He’s led bands large and small and accompanied legends from Coleman Hawkins to Miles Davis to Pat Metheny. Holland’s newest album, Hands, is the fruit of a three-year collaboration with renowned flamenco...
Posted Nov 17th, 2010
Ask Dave Holland
From daveholland.com As I mentioned in my recent email newsletter, we are starting a monthly feature on my blog called simply, “Ask Dave.” I receive quite a few questions about my career and playing music in general via email, and rather than respond privately, I thought I would make my answers available for everyone to read. We will pick several...
Posted Nov 2nd, 2010
LIVE VIDEO Dave Holland Tourcoing Jazz Festival
Enjoy this live video of the Dave Holland Quintet featuring Robin Eubanks from this Tourcoing Jazz Festival.
Posted Oct 27th, 2010
NPR Calls Dave Holland “A Jazz Bassist’s Bassist”
from NPR Dave Holland: A Jazz Bassist’s Bassist By Karen Michel Jazz bassist Dave Holland is known for the lyricism of his playing, for his mentoring of younger players and for his humility as a bandleader. Holland began his career in England as a teenager and moved to the U.S. on the promise of a gig with Miles Davis. Since...
Posted Jul 26th, 2010
REVIEW Dave Holland Quintet @ Jazz Showcase
(From The Chicago Tribune) Dave Holland Quintet – a brilliant band soars By: Howard Reich Published: June 11, 2010 It’s difficult to recall the last time a band received a standing ovation at the Jazz Showcase, a tough room that sets exalted standards for those who take its stage. But the crowd shot to its feet on Wednesday night, after...
Posted Jun 17th, 2010
REVIEW Dave Holland Quintet
(From Jazz Police) Written by Marrio Carrington Thursday, 03 June 2010 The first show of a two night engagement by the Dave Holland Quintet at the Dakota in downtown Minneapolis was exceptional and should be considered an appointment concert for one of the two remaining performances at 7pm or 9:30pm on Wednesday, June 2. The Quintet is composed of Dave...
Posted Jun 8th, 2010
REVIEW Dave Holland Quintet @ Birdland (NYC)
(From All About Jazz) By: David Miller Published: May 3, 2010 The Dave Holland Quintet (DHQ) is one of those rarest of things in jazz’“a working group. These days, due to a number of factors (cough$$cough), jazz musicians are spread very thin in terms of the number of projects they participate in. They jump fluidly from project to project, sideman...
Posted May 3rd, 2010
REVIEW Dave Holland @ Regattabar (Boston Globe)
(From The Boston Globe) By: Steve Greenlee Published: April 19, 2010 You’ve got to admire bassist Dave Holland. The guy has been at the forefront of jazz for more than 40 years ‘” from providing the brooding thump on Miles Davis’s landmark ‘In a Silent Way’‘ to pressing one of avant-garde jazz’s finest recordings, ‘Conference of the Birds,’‘ to leading...
Posted Apr 20th, 2010
INTERVIEW Dave Holland on Flamenco
(From Cheltenham Festivals) In a unique collaboration, Spanish flamenco guitar maestro Pepe Habichuela joins jazz bassist Dave Holland to perform the passionate melodies and enchanting folk songs of traditional Andalusian flamenco, combined with a strong hint of jazz swing. In a career spanning over 40 years, Dave has established himself as the world’s finest jazz bassist, working with Miles Davis,...
Posted Apr 2nd, 2010
REVIEW Dave Holland Octet “Pathways” (Spinner)
By: Tad Hendrickson Published: March 11, 2010 If you look around the scene, you’ll find that Dave Holland has few peers. He came into the jazz public’s consciousness as a bassist for Miles Davis from the late ’60s to the early ’70s, making his debut as a leader in 1972. He’s currently at the very top of the game, leading...
Posted Mar 23rd, 2010
Dave Holland Feature in JazzTimes
From JazzTimes (Bill Milkowski) March 8, 2010 Somewhere in New York State’s Hudson Valley, about 3,300 miles away from his birthplace in the English industrial city of Wolverhampton, wondrous sounds are issuing forth from the home of bassist, composer and bandleader Dave Holland. The most prominent Wulfrunian on the planet as well as England’s most famous jazz export, Holland takes...
Posted Mar 10th, 2010
Dave Holland: New Website, New Album
Dave Holland Octet: Pathways Released: March 23, 2010 Although the Dave Holland Octet originally formed in 2001, Pathways is the group’s debut album. Recorded at Birdland with Dave Holland, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson, Chris Potter, Nate Smith, Antonio Hart, Gary Smulyan, and Alex Sipiagin, the album was released on March 23rd on Dare2 Records. Pathways is available as a standard...
Posted Feb 10th, 2010
A New Band Hits Its Stride: The Overtone Quartet In Concert
The Overtone Quartet, which includes International Music Network’s acclaimed artists Dave Holland (bass), Chris Potter (saxophone), and Jason Moran (piano), joined by Eric Harland (drums), was formed just this year, yet it has already begun getting rave reviews despite its recent assembly. Walter Ray Watson, a senior producer at NPR, found the band “remarkably tight” and praised their performance at...
Posted Oct 29th, 2009
Dave Holland Leads With a Collectivist Spirit
From The New York Times By Nate Chinen There are few musicians in jazz with a more untroubled sense of leadership than the bassist Dave Holland. Since the first recordings made under his name, in the early 1970s, Mr. Holland has expressed his point of view with gracious clarity, drawing out the best from his partners while keeping a firm...
Posted Sep 10th, 2009
The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival
The Monterey Jazz Festival Records Label is proud to announce performance dates for the Overtone Quartet at the Blue Note on September 8 through 13. Overtone will perform in support of the forthcoming August 25 release, The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival. The quartet, which features bassist Dave Holland, saxophonist Chris Potter, pianist Jason Moran and...
Posted Aug 20th, 2009
Follow Dave Holland on Twitter
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Posted Jun 6th, 2009
NPR: Dave Holland & Co. At Newport Jazz Festival
WBGO In a set filled with angular, thoroughly modern originals, the supergroup of bassist Dave Holland, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter and drummer Eric Harland kicked off the Saturday program at the Newport Jazz Festival. In 2007, the four musicians met on the summer festival circuit and hit it off immediately. Though their busy schedules dictated that they were...
Posted Aug 9th, 2008
Dave Holland on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Dave Holland, Working Some Big-Band ‘Overtime’ Weekend Edition Sunday April 24, 2005 Liane Hansen This spring, bassist and composer Dave Holland has been touring with his Big Band, and he’s released a new recording with the ensemble. The CD is called Overtime, and it’s out on his own label, Dare2Records. Holland tells Liane Hansen about swinging with a big-band sound....
Posted Apr 24th, 2005
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The all-star quartet consisting of Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Lionel Loueke & Eric Harland, premiered in front of a packed audience at the 2015 Winnipeg International Jazz Festival. After receiving a two-minute standing ovation, The Winnipeg Free Press exclaimed “No name, no problem as Jazz quartet gives near perfect performance.” The quartet went on the first United States tour in 2016, in support of their debut recording.
As a soloist, composer and bandleader, saxophonist Chris Potter has emerged as a leading light of his generation. DownBeat called him, “One of the most studied (and copied) saxophonists on the planet,” while JazzTimes identified him as, “a figure of international renown” and saxophonist Dave Liebman called him simply, “one of the best musicians around.” He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his solo work on In Vogue and has recorded with many of the leading names in jazz, such as Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, John Scofield, the Mingus Big Band, Paul Motian, Ray Brown and others.
Bassist, composer, and bandleader Dave Holland is now in his fifth decade as a performer and his music possesses a rich and kaleidoscopic history. His career took off when he participated in the famous Miles Davis Band, which he left to devote himself to composing his own music. Over the course of his career, he has enjoyed strong collaborations with jazz legends, such as drummer Billy Higgins, pianist Hank Jones, Betty Carter and Herbie Hancock, with whom he last collaborated in 2008 on the album River: The Joni Letters, which won the 2008 Grammy for Album of the Year.
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One of the most versatile bassists in jazz
The Los Angeles Times
When Dave Holland walks on-stage, he gets reception unlike that of any other jazz star. It’s an encouraging sign for jazz, because Holland is neither flashy nor young, like the rock stars who get such hoots, howls, whistles, and shouts of ‘yeah!’ Rather, Holland is a master bassist and bandleader, one of the most sophisticated composers and arrangers in the jazz world
The Boston Globe
The commander-in-chief of a first rate, cutting edge group has to be everything: creative genius and effective entrepreneur, power player and diplomat, steeped in experience but fresh and unjaded… Few current leaders exemplify the role as well as bassist Dave Holland
DownBeat
There is no musician in jazz more widely respected
Valley Times