Dave Holland (born 1946) is an English jazz double bassist and bandleader known for his work with Miles Davis and for leading influential small and large ensembles with recordings on ECM.

Played with Miles Davis in the late 1960s (appearances on sessions such as In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew era recordings); long career as leader and composer with notable ECM recordings and work with octets, quintets and big bands.

Two highly positive reviews on DeBaser praise Holland's historical importance and mastery of improvisation. One review frames Music From Two Basses as an avant‑garde milestone; the other highlights the cohesion and compositional breadth of Pathways. Both emphasize virtuosity, ensemble interplay, and Holland's link to late 1960s jazz innovations.

For:jazz listeners, musicians, students of improvisation, fans of modern/avant‑garde jazz

 It is one of the most avant-garde and unsettling works the musical 20th century has proposed, one of those milestones that impress, fluster, and even "disturb," if possible, made to bewilder rather than to please, should we intend pleasure as the simple auditory satisfaction in purely "hedonistic" terms: indeed, it is a work not listened to but "lived", a representation of phenomenology capable of transcending the mere sound event to place itself in the exalted realm of "unrepeatability."

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 Dave Holland is undoubtedly one of the prominent figures in the contemporary jazz scene, and he reaffirms this in this work.

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