Holland/Habichuela | Jazz review

Barbican, LondonJazz and flamenco have always sounded like natural bedfellows, though the bedroom might get noisy. Both genres favour stripped-down structures maximising improv space and subtle rhythmic volatility. Dave Holland, the great jazz bassist and composer, has been exploring the relationship with legendary flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela.The pair's Hands album is a triumph, but the music was all the more vivid for hearing Habichuela's whiplash emphases and steely precision of phrasin...

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