Conference of the Birds is a 1973 album by the Dave Holland Quartet. It is jazz bassist Holland's second collaboration with composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton, as well as his second album on ECM Records. The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected the album as part of its "Core Collection," and gave it a rating of four stars (of a possible four). Jazz critic Michael G. Nastos called the album "[Holland]'s finest hour" and "definitive progressive mus...
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Conference of the Birds is a 1973 album by the Dave Holland Quartet. It is jazz bassist Holland's second collaboration with composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton, as well as his second album on ECM Records. The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected the album as part of its "Core Collection," and gave it a rating of four stars (of a possible four). Jazz critic Michael G. Nastos called the album "[Holland]'s finest hour" and "definitive progressive music." The album's title is taken from the 12th-century Persian poem of the same name by Farid ud-Din Attar, an allegory about the quest for enlightenment. The liner notes describe how birds would congregate each morning outside Holland's London apartment and join with one another in song.
All compositions by Dave Holland.
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