David Holland And Barre Philips - Music From Two Basses (1971)

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Artist: David Holland And Barre Philips
Title: Music From Two Basses
Year Of Release: 1971
Label: ECM[ECM 1011]
Genre: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Free Jazz
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Total Time: 37:20
Total Size: 165 MB(+3%) | 88 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Improvised piece I 10:33
2. Improvised piece II 7:46
3. Beans 3:10
4. Raindrops 4:13
5. May be I can sing it for you 1:48
6. Just a whisper 4:57
7. Song for Clare 4:53

personnel :

Dave Holland - double bass, violoncello
Barre Phillips - double bass

Originally released on ECM in 1972, and here reissued on CD in Japan, this historic date features the two British bassists engaged while at the top of their powers, exploring not only tonality and the dynamic and harmonic possibilities that exist between two double basses, but also the expanded notions of how the different players' styles and musical intuitions dovetail, rather than work in opposition. Holland's pizzicato attack is far more languid and lush than Phillips,' whose style is over the top; they approach each encounter as one in which sheer propulsiveness becomes an aesthetic. This does not mean it all feels like extreme free blowing, but more, because of Phillips' edge and his solidly jazz arco approach -- Holland's sound has more of the classical in it -- the proceedings dance on the knife-edge of communication and noise. They slip around one another in a very aggressive dance, where implements of melody becomes a schema from which to jump into a deliriously moving expanse dynamically. There is simply no bass recording like this one, and over 30 years after its release, it is still a classic, an astonishing look at how intimate and instinctive musical communication can really be.~Thom Jurek

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