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Please enjoy this clip from the film "Dave
Holland Quintet: Vortex," which features a
solo from Marvin "Smitty" Smith, the drummer
from "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, during
the song "Homecoming." The film also features
Dave Holland (Bass), Ken Wheeler (Trumpet),
Robin Eubanks (Trombone), and Steve Coleman
(Alto Sax).
This concert gem stars the Quintet at the
peak of their musical maturity: merging
passion and logic, spontaneity and group
interplay with sparkling clarity. Each
musician works as a cog in the delightful
engine of swing, relating his phasing to the
supple beat laid down by Holland and Smith.
Merging spontaneity and group interplay, the
Dave Holland Quintet rivets their audience to
every phrase that's played, and transports
the listener to another world. Each musician
works as a cog in the delightful engine of
swing, relating his phrasing to Holland and
Smith's supple beat. With all its unique
inventiveness, the Quintet projects an utter
melodic mellowness.
Without a piano, without a "standard" song
repertoire and with straight-faced
concentration, the Quintet creates palpable
musical shapes using innovative themes and
variations. For all its unique inventiveness,
they project an absolute melodic mellowness
on their tunes: Vortex, Homecoming and Wiguts
Waits for Weights.
"... one of the most inspiring free-jazz
players." -- Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz
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