Posts Tagged ‘flamenco’

Dave Holland arrived this morning (1st March) for one of his regular visits to the Jazz Course at The Birmingham Conservatoire where Dave is a Visiting Lecturer.  He will be here till Friday working with two special groups of students who have been rehearsing material of Dave’s.  They will work intensively with Dave in the next couple of days and will perform in the Recital Hall at the Conservatoire on Wednesday this week at 7.30 (4th March).  Both groups have some of the top players on the course and the concert is open to the public with tickets just £5 and £3 concessions.  You can buy them on the door.  On Wednesday and Thursday Dave will be giving lectures to the jazz students.

On Friday Dave will be going off to Madrid to play at two concerts and to record with a Spanish flamenco group led by Pepe Habichuela.  Dave has been working with them off and on for a few years now and really enjoys the challenge of learning the rhythms and harmonies of flamenco.  Dave has little Spanish and Pepe and the flamenco musicians no English, so communication has to be done through interpreters.  But the real communication comes through the music and Dave says that he has developed a real respect for both the musicians and the music itself.  To quote a recent article on the collaboration on a flamenco website www.esflamenco.com ‘ Pepe Habichuela and Dave Holland showed that when you have music in your hearts there are no barriers‘ (www.esflamenco.com/scripts/news/ennews.asp?frmIdPagina=989)

 Dave will in Madrid for two weeks making this recording.  No news yet of when or where the record will come out, but it is certainly an album to look forward to.  It would also be great to hear the collaboration live in UK.

Tony