Dave Holland interviewed by Bill Smith ('73 & '89)

[Cem]

I thought most of you would be interested in these Dave Holland interviews by the *great* Bill Smith.

[Big Apple]

Thanks Cem
As a fan of Dave Holland, I've found these interviews to be interesting.
I've picked up this excerpt, which is for me typical of his approach and which can explain the wide variety of styles of his music along his career:

And this is something that I've noticed happened with the music, is that no matter what kind of music you play, it doesn't matter what the style, if the spirit is in the music, if there's really a spirit in the music, it communicates to people. The people sense that, and we really had a unified feeling going on for awhile, and people immediately caught fire because of it. They saw what happened on the stand which made them feel good just by virtue of the fact that they could see that kind of closeness and communication and love between people was possible. The music kind of represented that, and so that took them beyond the idiom that we were working with, whether we were using strange or common sound, it didn't seem to matter, it just could relate to the feel of it.

[Cem]

Yes, that's what's so great about him. I wish he were involved in more Circle-like projects still, along with his current band. Maybe he does & I don't know it.