{"id":9557,"date":"2024-09-04T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postgenre.org\/staging\/4567\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T03:27:52","slug":"no-isolation-dave-holland-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postgenre.org\/staging\/4567\/no-isolation-dave-holland-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"No Isolation: A Conversation with Dave Holland (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We continue our conversation (check out part one here<\/a>) with NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland by digging into his solo works, bluegrass music, music from around the world, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PG: Since musical relationships are very important to you, it would be interesting to know more about your solo bass work on both Emerald Tears<\/em> (ECM, 1977) and Ones All <\/em>(VeraBra, 1995). What do you enjoy most about solo performances? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DH: Well, Emerald Tears <\/em>was recorded during an interesting week. I was in Oslo, and we did three records in a week there. We did one of Kenny Wheeler\u2019s records [Deer Wan<\/em> (ECM, 1978)] with the Gateway trio of Jack DeJohnette, John Abercrombie, and myself. We spent a couple of days working on that record, then spent a couple of days recording a Gateway album [Gateway 2 <\/em>(ECM, 1977)]. At the end of recording the Gateway album, everybody else went home, and I recorded my solo record, Emerald Tears. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got into performing solo through Anthony Braxton. Emerald Tears<\/em> was recorded not that long – maybe four or five years – after Circle ended. During Circle\u2019s concerts, Braxton would often do solo pieces. He also used to do solo saxophone concerts, which was not done a lot before that. I think Coleman Hawkins was one of the first people to record a solo saxophone piece in the jazz situation. And Anthony encouraged me to do solo performances as well. To that point, I’d never really done a completely solo piece on my own in that way. So, I started doing solo pieces with Circle. Over time, ideas would come together on what material I wanted to use. And that’s how that recording happened. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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