Muse Festival - Dave Holland Quintet in Athens

Muse Festival - Global Jazz

Muse Festival is a special music event. It is an annual festival as well as a live recording session, aiming to support the independent music creation in Greece and its international promotion. It focuses on the “Global Jazz” idea, a concept incorporating the Jazz idiom as well as all contemporary musical forms. All concerts are recorded digitally in multi track format.

Muse Festival provides artists the opportunity to broaden their horizons of cooperation, communication and inspiration by bringing them in contact with some of the greatest international representatives of Jazz and World music. Furthermore, it gives the audience an opportunity to become part of a unique moment of musical creativity and its subsequent exposure to a worldwide audience.

Muse Festival is a non profit initiative by “Muse.gr” Music Institute (www.muse.gr) and it is being held annually in Athens – Greece during the first week of December.

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Dave Holland Quintet in Athens

As a group that can project like a big band, the quintet’s magic comes from their chamber-like sensibility with a spellbinding intimacy best heard in the friendly confines of a club. “Free For All” typifies the band’s attitude, which is a paradoxical blend of early jazz polyphony, free interplay, jazz-rock fusion with a meticulous adherence to both melody and improvisation, as well as a fresh approach to swing. This is possible because there’s so much trust expressed among Holland, reedist Chris Potter, trombonist Robin Eubanks, vibist Steve Nelson and drummer Billy Kilson. … When the Dave Holland puts it all together there isn’t a band alive that can touch them.

John Ephland, Downbeat