MAY 23-26 | DAVE HOLLAND
May 26, 2024
Miner Auditorium
First assembled for an SFJAZZ performance during the 2017-18 Season, this historic convergence of instrumental giants returns for night four of Dave Holland’s residency, showcasing the singular telepathy they’ve forged over the last seven years and memorialized on their 2019 Edition Records debut Good Hope.
“One of the most studied (and copied) saxophonists on the planet,” (DownBeat) Chris Potter is a standard bearer of modern jazz, a restless bandleader, SFJAZZ Collective musical director, and collaborator with Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, and the Mingus Big Band.
Since arriving in the Bay Area as a celebrated teenage prodigy trained by his legendary father Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain has brought the rhythmic sophistication of North Indian classical music into a diverse array of settings from Shakti to Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum, blazing a mind-boggling array of musical trails.
Far more than one of the jazz’s greatest bassists, Dave Holland has inhabited the music’s adventurous edge ever since Miles Davis hired him to anchor his band in 1968 as it rapidly morphed from an acoustic powerhouse to a pioneering fusion combo. After spending years exploring the outer reaches with Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers and founding the pioneering Gateway Trio with John Abercrombie and Jack DeJohnette, the British-born bassist started leading his own ensembles which have served as a proving ground for a legion of celebrated improvisers. 24 albums as a leader and collaborations with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Kenny Wheeler and dozens more have made him among the most versatile and prolific bassist/composers in jazz history.
This historic convergence of instrumental giants returns for Holland’s residency, showcasing the singular telepathy they’ve forged over the last seven years and memorialized on their 2019 Edition Records debut Good Hope.
One of the most versatile bassists in jazz.
Los Angeles Times on Dave Holland
One of the most versatile bassists in jazz.
Los Angeles Times on Dave Holland
Personnel
Dave Holland bass
Chris Potter tenor and soprano saxophone
Zakir Hussain tabla, percussion
The sweeping range of ideas, effortless fluency and tonal control are absorbing enough, but (Good Hope)’s joy lies in the depth and detail of the three musicians playing as one.
Financial Times
Personnel
Dave Holland bass
Chris Potter tenor and soprano saxophone
Zakir Hussain tabla, percussion
The sweeping range of ideas, effortless fluency and tonal control are absorbing enough, but (Good Hope)’s joy lies in the depth and detail of the three musicians playing as one.
Financial Times
Watch & Listen
Dave Holland Aziza
Walkin' The Walk
Dave Holland Aziza
Finding the Light
Dave Holland Aziza
Walkin' The Walk
Dave Holland Aziza
Finding the Light