◇ image via WikipediaDave Holland
Dave Holland is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Karl Denson, Cassandra Wilson, Jason Moran, Return to Forever and Tomasz Stańko. Those roots explain a lot about how Dave Holland arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, Jan Garbarek, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Dick Lövgren, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Dhafer Youssef and ECM Records, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Dave Holland, reaching back through Karl Denson and forward to Dick Lövgren. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Dave Holland connections
Dave Holland grew out of Karl Denson, Cassandra Wilson, Jason Moran and Return to Forever, shares an orbit with Paul Bley, Ornette Coleman, Jan Garbarek and Wayne Shorter, went on to shape Dick Lövgren, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny and Dhafer Youssef. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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