Dave Holland has been considered one of modern jazz’s stellar bassists since arriving on the scene in 1968 with trumpet legend Miles Davis. His own highly acclaimed work as leader as well as time spent with creative artists such as saxophonists Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton and pianist Chick Corea clearly place the British-born musician in the modernist camp. Yet it is the element of New Orleans traditional style jazz, which he performed as a teenager in London, that lingers in his approach ...