Release Date: 05 August 2022
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602445995110
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
2022 reissue of a classic 1973 album by David Holland Quartet.
It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An album of driving, progressive jazz it is also of historical significance as the only occasion when Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton, two of the music's most strikingly original saxophonists, recorded together.
Inside Dave's compositions they could meet - if briefly - and share ideas. This summit meeting received rave reviews from the press. "If you've found the new music lacking in swing, cohesion and variety, get to this album," insisted Down Beat in a five star review. "It's Holland's date but each man contributes equally. The six Holland tunes offer great improvisational frameworks, and his bass playing, both arco and pizzicato, couldn't be better... Don't miss this one."
Dave Holland: bass
Sam Rivers: reeds, flute
Anthony Braxton: reeds, flute
Barry Altschul: percussion, marimba
Tracklisting
Bennie Maupin; Herbie Hancock; Buster Williams; Frederick Waits; Billy Hart; Bill Summers; Charles
Arve Henriksen; Trygve Seim; Anders Jormin; Markku Ounaskari
Joe Lovano; Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Chick Corea
Savina Yannatou; Primavera en Salonico; Lamia Bedioui
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Bram De Looze, Thomas Morgan, Joey Baron, Hank Roberts
Olga Amelchenko
Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra
Joe Magnarelli
EH3 (Erland Helbo, Frode Berg & Eric Smith)
Dexter Gordon
Zoe Pia & Tenores Di Orosei
Jan Gunnar Hoff Group
