Critical Mass

Dave Holland Quintet - Critical Mass

Critical Mass
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Artist: Dave Holland Quintet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Sunny Side
Soundtracks:
  1. The Eyes Have It
  2. Easy Did It
  3. Vicissitudes - Dave Holland, Potter, Chris
  4. The Leak - Dave Holland, Smith, Nate
  5. Secret Garden
  6. Lucky Seven
  7. Full Circle - Dave Holland, Eubanks, Robin
  8. Amator Silenti - Dave Holland, Nelson, Steve

Music reviews of Critical Mass

Music Review: Beautiful
Rating: 5 Stars

Again a beautifully recorded piece by Dave Holland. Also it does not really follow the typical ECM sound as we know it while still sounding perfect. Indeed, this music is more alive than their regular pieces.

Description of Critical Mass

Following up on his 2005 Grammy win for Overtime, Dave Holland returns with Critical Mass, the new album from the critic and fan favorite Dave Holland Quintet. The album features all of the original members including Chris Potter (saxes), Steve Nelson (vibes), Robin Eubanks (trombone) as well as new member Nate Smith (drums). The album includes 4 new Holland compositions as well as one from each of the band members. Critical Mass sounds like an album made by a group of world-class musicians that have performed together for nearly a decade. Great tunes and interplay that borders on musical telepathy.
For years now, there has been no more proficient working band in jazz than the Dave Holland Quintet. Like such precursors as the Jazztet and the Jazz Messengers, it balances songcraft and improvisation with consummate ease. And the seasoned frontline of saxophonist Chris Potter, trombonist Robin Eubanks and vibraphonist Steve Nelson goes beyond the usual tag-team solos in engaging in complex time schemes and coloristic shifts, extending themes and partaking of overlapping lines. Critical Mass boasts some of the band's catchiest tunes while showcasing its fondness for mussing up their clean foundations with free-spirited exchanges before restoring civility. The material ranges from bassist Holland's Middle Eastern-tinged "Secret Garden" to drummer Nate Smith's hip-hoppy "The Leak." Powerfully contained on tenor, Potter sounds like he's been listening to the great, departed Steve Lacy on soprano while Nelson plays up his percussive skills on marimba. If the album doesn't have the excitement of past efforts, that's partly because Smith, as strong as he is, doesn't have the sudden explosiveness of his precedessor, Billy Kilson. Perhaps, too, the band has settled a bit into familiar patterns. Still, this is a class act. --Lloyd Sachs

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