News Release

Legendary jazz bassist
to bring sextet to UNC

CHAPEL HILL –Bassist and composer Dave Holland, who has shared stages with jazz greats including Chick Corea and the late Miles Davis, will perform his original music Feb. 8 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The 7:30 p.m. contemporary jazz performance in the Beasley-Curtis Auditorium of Memorial Hall will be presented by Carolina Performing Arts. Rounding out Holland’s sextet will be Mulgrew Miller, Eric Harland, Robin Eubanks, Antonio Hart and Alex Sipiagin.

In more than 40 years in music, Holland has become one of the world’s leading jazz bass players. The New York Times has called him “one of the jewels of the jazz world.”

Born in England in 1946, Holland studied music from an early age and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. By 1967, Holland was appearing frequently at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London (http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/), a landmark for the genre in Europe. There, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Joe Henderson were among his stage mates.

Holland joined Davis’s band in New York in 1968. He toured with the group and played on its recordings including “Bitches Brew” and “In a Silent Way.” “Brew” won the 1970 Grammy for Best Jazz Performance (large group or soloist with large group).

In 1970, Holland founded the group Circle with jazz pianist Corea, who performed in Memorial Hall last October. Holland also has worked with jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Betty Carter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Michael Brecker.

Tickets for Holland’s performance, $24-$50, are available online at www.carolinaperformingarts.org, by calling (919) 843-3333 or from the Memorial Hall Box Office on Cameron Avenue, open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Tickets for Carolina students are $10. Tickets also are on sale for other performances. For more information, visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org.

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Carolina Performing Arts contacts: Don Smith, (919) 843-3119, donsmith@email.unc.edu; Jennifer Warner, (919) 966-3834, jenniferwarner@unc.edu