Reviewing these three albums is the first time I’ve had the chance to really listen to the Brian Holland/Danny Coots combo. I’ve put their names online a thousand times for our festival roundup and seen a few YouTube videos, but because I don’t make it to many festivals and they have yet to pass through my area I have stayed behind the curve. Our festival going readers are way ahead of me when it comes to the three Holland/Coots outfits I will review today. Lucky them!
That is how information silos work by the way. Never be surprised when someone hasn’t heard of, or in this case heard, an artist. They could attend five festivals a year and still have missed this or that one. It is like that with our paper. I like to think that nine out of ten potential subscribers have never heard of us. Those people surround you at local concerts, big festivals, and jazz society meetings. Please let them know what they are missing.
Brian Holland, piano, and Danny Coots, drums, were already well established on the festival circuit when they began to partner in 2010. They knew they were onto something because for going on 15 years you will mostly, but certainly not exclusively, see them scheduled together now. The perform as a duo, and two different trios, with each expandable into a quintet.
I assume it doesn’t need to be said for our audience but just because an album is seven years old
