Double Bass Dave Holland commits heresy

[CryingBass]

The look on Sco's face. Might be thinking about Steve Swallow, I think.

Exactly. Never seen both of them play together live, sadly.

 

[REV]

It's a P bass with tort. What's the problem?

 

[bass12]

It's a P bass with tort. What's the problem?

Those look suspiciously like rounds!

 

[damonsmith]

I thought he played some electric on this:
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[brianrost]

Geez, you guys have no sense of humor!

Dave was playing bass guitar before he took up the DB and I know he’s gone back to it now and then. There’s a video out there of a Jack deJohnette show with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Dave playing a Schecter (I think).

I’d love to see him play the cello again, the first I saw him he played it along with DB at a Sam Rivers show in the late 70s. Life Cycle is one of my favorite Dave albums.

 

[Don Kasper]

Pics, or it didn't happen...
From Wiki:
Born in Wolverhampton, England, Holland taught himself how to play stringed instruments, beginning at four on the ukulele,

 

[Selim]

From multiple interviews over the years:

Started on electric bass and dug the Beatles, Stones, Cream, the radio, etc. like just about every other young person in the 60s

Then heard Leroy Vinnegar and Ray Brown and you know the rest..

 

[Selim]

Geez, you guys have no sense of humor!

Dave was playing bass guitar before he took up the DB and I know he’s gone back to it now and then. There’s a video out there of a Jack deJohnette show with Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Dave playing a Schecter (I think).

I’d love to see him play the cello again, the first I saw him he played it along with DB at a Sam Rivers show in the late 70s. Life Cycle is one of my favorite Dave albums.

Life Cycle is quite an achievement considering he taught himself cello while recovering from heart surgery..

 

[Francois Blais]

I saw him live (solo) around 1983 and he played both bass and cello.
And that was a few months after his surgery I think.
Quoted from New York Times:

Mr. Holland recorded a solo bass album, ''Emerald Tears,'' in 1978, and last November he completed a solo cello album, ''Life Cycle,'' which has just been released. ''I started playing cello in 1971,'' he said, ''and had planned to make the solo album in 1981, but that was rather a bad year for me. Still, when I was sick, the cello was one of the instruments I could play; the hospital even found a small office I could practice in. So there was a certain symbolic thing about getting this album completed.

''The cello is a peculiar instrument to play jazz on - there's not really a precedent on it, and because of the bowing it's difficult to phrase with the right quality. I had a lot of classical training, which is a help and an asset in some ways, but also something you almost have to overcome - a lot of technical concepts just don't work in improvising. All but one of the pieces on the album are improvised around a predetermined concept - for example, the opening piece uses fifths and has a dance feel - so the composition and the improvising are all mixed together. The music is improvised, so it's not really classical, but it doesn't sound like a jazz album, either.''

''One of the nice things that's happening now is that it's an inclusive kind of period,'' Mr. Holland said. ''Musicians are going back to old forms and trying to rethink them -the past is being connected up to the present again. I think music should be joyous; it can express many moods, but it should leave you with a feeling of some kind of completion and satisfaction.''

The bold highlighting is mine.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Day-um, that P Bass looks like it's been ridden hard and put away wet.
I'd rock it.