Jazz news: Celebrated Jazz Bassist, Composer, Bandleader Dave Holland Named Visiting Artist-in-Residence at New England Conservatory. Posted in “Education” column. Published: February 11, 2005 @ All ...

It's been a long time since Dave Holland's small hands strummed a ukulele at about the age of five, an endeavor that eventually led him to the guitar and entry in a fledgling band as a teenager around ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. -- Jazz bassists are typically cast in a supporting rather than a leading role, relegated to the back of the bandstand with the rhythm section. But at New York's Birdland Club ...

Uncharted Territories, the forthcoming album headlined by bassist Dave Holland (out on May 11th via Dare2 Records), brings together a quartet of some of the best players in forward-thinking jazz.

It was a career move that, in retrospect, almost seemed accidental. Here was Dave Holland, now the most celebrated jazz composer/bandleader since Charles Mingus, looking his future in the face at age ...

There’s a loop-de-loop busyness to Dave Holland’s big band. Thelonious Monk once talked about music where something happens “every googolplexth of a second,” and Holland’s definitely got that timing ...

Hear tracks by Griff, Kidd G, Masayoshi Fujita and others. By Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello Hear tracks by Jarvis Cocker, Diet Cig, Blueface, Lauv and others. By Jon Pareles, Jon ...

Dave Holland performs with his big band at Birdland in New York. Holland's new double-CD, "Extended Play," his first in-concert recording as a leader, offers a chance to hear the group playing a ...