Dave Holland/Pepe Habichuela: Hands | Jazz review

(Decca)Dave Holland may be influential for his contemporary composition, but he has an equally vigorous life playing bass for other people. Hands is a departure for him, a collaboration with veteran flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela, his sidemen and his son Josemi. Holland's sound (at times echoing Charlie Haden's with the Spanish-inflected 1970 Liberation Music Orchestra) is a natural for this richly sonorous idiom, but traditional flamenco is mixed with lighter dance tunes and starker solo me...

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