Dave Holland

Dave Holland is a British-born jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader living in the USA. There he became famous in his youth mainly as a teammate of trumpeter Miles Davis, in whose band he replaced Ron Carter in 1968. With Davis Holland, he also recorded the famous albums In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew (both 1969), with which the trumpeter defined a new musical style, jazzrock, respectively. fusion. In the 1970s, Holland collaborated with avant-garde saxophonist Anthony Braxton, but he also collaborated with a number of other musicians, starting with Stan Getz and ending with guitarist John Abercrombie. At the same time, he also started his own solo career. As part of it, he released many albums mainly with the Munich label ECM.