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DAVE HOLLAND & LIONEL LOUEKE (Spojené státy / Benin)
Dave Holland & Lionel Louke (United States / Benin)
Event by: P & J Music
Location: New Town Hall, Karlovo náměstí 1, Praha 2
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Dave Holland - double bass/Lionel Louke - guitar
Dave Holland and Lionel Louke will present the strength of the connection
United, "joining". This can symbolize, for example, different continents of the origin of musicians, a different generation, but the only musician genius and cementing jazz roots. The concert dialogue of the Champions will also take place in Prague, 17 March 2026 in the History Hall of the New Town Hall. Louke (*23. 4. 1973, Cotona, Benin) could be surprising to some extent. But it is logical. After all, an iconic European and an extremely talented African have been meeting in America for two decades and have known acquaintances. Both participated in the extremely successful, Grammy Award -winning album River: The Joni Letters (2007) Herbie Hancock. Louke also played in Holland's Quartet with Chris Potter and Erik Harland, this cooperation is recorded on the album Aziza (2016). The level of intimate, top musician communication. In addition, Holland is known to have always been discovered in the culture of various continents. From Latin to Indian music. The dive to the deepest roots of jazz, the fluttering polyrythms and the harmonious procedures of West African music, so it looks absolutely natural. Especially in cooperation with the "native speaker" of African genres by Louek, controlling his native region a typical style of percussive guitar play.
Dave Holland is one of the real jazz icons. To personalities essential in terms of the development of jazz, to co -creators of the first Fusion discharges. From the pop bass player at the beginning of the 60s, enchanted by the recording of Ray Brown and Charles Mingus, "retrained" to a jazz double bassist. Soon he won the spurs as a popular Sideman on British American players like Coleman Hawkins or Joe Henderson. And summoned to the states. Everything else is, as they say, history. Holland played on the fundamental Davis stylotious albums Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968), In A Silent Way (1969) and on the jazz milestone Bitches Brew (1970). This was followed by cooperation with Chick Corea and Anthony Braxton, including the foundation of the band Circle. And further playing literally with everyone who meant something in jazz. And of course a successful bandwidth. By the way, a certain prototype of Holland's cooperation in a duo with a guitarist became a recording of Improvisations for Cello and Guitar with Derek Bailey for the ECM. At the same time, his musician is one of the very unusual ones. Although he has been on percussion since nine, he did not receive any systematic, formal music education in his childhood. For the guitar he was only impressed as a seventeen -year -old, thanks to the recordings of George Benson and Wes Montgomery. In addition, a long year had to save on the cheapest instrument because it came from really poor conditions. But then everything went fast. Despite the studios of classical music on the Coast of Ivory at the National Institute of Art, he was supported by a scholarship for extremely talented musicians, Parisian School of Music. And then, in 1999, beyond the ocean to Boston at Berklee College of Music. Both famous jazzmen were enthusiastic about the original guitarist so much that they invited him to their bands and to record their albums. Lionel Louke worked in Herbie Hancock for fifteen years. Today, the guitarist has worked with stars like Wayne Shorter, Norah Jones, Omar Sosa, Esperanza Spalding, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chick Corea, Gretchen Parlato, Laura Mvula or Angelique Kidjo and more than a dozen solo albums. In our country we also know it thanks to cooperation with saxophonist Luboš Soukup. Href = "https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/album/United"> https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/album/United
Dave Holland - double bass/Lionel Louke - guitar
Dave Holland and Lionel Louke will present the strength of the connection
United, "joining". This can symbolize, for example, different continents of the origin of musicians, a different generation, but the only musician genius and cementing jazz roots. The concert dialogue of the Champions will also take place in Prague, 17 March 2026 in the History Hall of the New Town Hall. Louke (*23. 4. 1973, Cotona, Benin) could be surprising to some extent. But it is logical. After all, an iconic European and an extremely talented African have been meeting in America for two decades and have known acquaintances. Both participated in the extremely successful, Grammy Award -winning album River: The Joni Letters (2007) Herbie Hancock. Louke also played in Holland's Quartet with Chris Potter and Erik Harland, this cooperation is recorded on the album Aziza (2016). The level of intimate, top musician communication. In addition, Holland is known to have always been discovered in the culture of various continents. From Latin to Indian music. The dive to the deepest roots of jazz, the fluttering polyrythms and the harmonious procedures of West African music, so it looks absolutely natural. Especially in cooperation with the "native speaker" of African genres by Louek, controlling his native region a typical style of percussive guitar play.
Dave Holland is one of the real jazz icons. To personalities essential in terms of the development of jazz, to co -creators of the first Fusion discharges. From the pop bass player at the beginning of the 60s, enchanted by the recording of Ray Brown and Charles Mingus, "retrained" to a jazz double bassist. Soon he won the spurs as a popular Sideman on British American players like Coleman Hawkins or Joe Henderson. And summoned to the states. Everything else is, as they say, history. Holland played on the fundamental Davis stylotious albums Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968), In A Silent Way (1969) and on the jazz milestone Bitches Brew (1970). This was followed by cooperation with Chick Corea and Anthony Braxton, including the foundation of the band Circle. And further playing literally with everyone who meant something in jazz. And of course a successful bandwidth. By the way, a certain prototype of Holland's cooperation in a duo with a guitarist became a recording of Improvisations for Cello and Guitar with Derek Bailey for the ECM. At the same time, his musician is one of the very unusual ones. Although he has been on percussion since nine, he did not receive any systematic, formal music education in his childhood. For the guitar he was only impressed as a seventeen -year -old, thanks to the recordings of George Benson and Wes Montgomery. In addition, a long year had to save on the cheapest instrument because it came from really poor conditions. But then everything went fast. Despite the studios of classical music on the Coast of Ivory at the National Institute of Art, he was supported by a scholarship for extremely talented musicians, Parisian School of Music. And then, in 1999, beyond the ocean to Boston at Berklee College of Music. Both famous jazzmen were enthusiastic about the original guitarist so much that they invited him to their bands and to record their albums. Lionel Louke worked in Herbie Hancock for fifteen years. Today, the guitarist has worked with stars like Wayne Shorter, Norah Jones, Omar Sosa, Esperanza Spalding, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chick Corea, Gretchen Parlato, Laura Mvula or Angelique Kidjo and more than a dozen solo albums. In our country we also know it thanks to cooperation with saxophonist Luboš Soukup. Href = "https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/album/United"> https://daveholland.bandcamp.com/album/United