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
Keith Jarrett
The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips
Shem Guibbory; Steve Reich Ensemble; George Manahan
![Jan Garbarek; Rainer Bruninghaus; Eberhard Weber; Marilyn Mazur; Bugge Wesseltoft; Boys from the choir "Solvguttene"; Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra; Jansug Kakhidze; Torstein Grythe; Jansug Kakhidze - Jan Garbarek: Rites [Luminessence Series] - 5553948](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/0602455539489.jpg?v=1788768828&width=700)
Jan Garbarek; Rainer Bruninghaus; Eberhard Weber; Marilyn Mazur; Bugge Wesseltoft; Boys from the ch
Gidon Kremer; Geneva Lewis; Andrei Pushkarev; Kremerata Baltica
Enrico Rava; Fearless Five; Joe Lovano
![Stanley Cowell Trio; Stanley Clarke; Jimmy Hopps - Stanley Cowell Trio: Illusion Suite [Luminessence Series] - 4505321](http://propermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/0602445053216.jpg?v=1786096126&width=700)
Stanley Cowell Trio; Stanley Clarke; Jimmy Hopps
Paul Griffiths; Jack Quartet
The Darius Brubeck Quartet
Steve Grossman
Brandon Sanders
Jim Snidero
Jerry Bergonzi
Franco Ambrosetti
Claus Raible
Aki Takase & Daniel Erdmann
