Critical Mass is a 2006 album release by the Dave Holland Quintet, and the first to feature drummer Nate Smith. Apart from his previous solo double bass & cello albums, this is Holland's first album to be released outside the ECM

ECM (record label)

ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...

 label, through which he had released all of his albums since his 1972 debut as leader, Conference of the Birds

Conference of the Birds (Dave Holland album)

- Track listing :All compositions by Dave Holland.# "Four Winds" – 6:32# "Q & A" – 8:34# "Conference of the Birds" – 4:34# "Interception" – 8:20# "Now Here " – 4:34# "See-Saw" – 6:40- Personnel :...

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Track listing

1. "The Eyes Have It" (Dave Holland) - 7:00
2. "Easy Did It" (Dave Holland) - 11:16
3. "Vicissitudes" (Chris Potter) - 9:56
4. "The Leak" (Nate Smith) - 5:42
5. "Secret Garden" (Dave Holland) - 8:42
6. "Lucky Seven" (Dave Holland) - 8:35
7. "Full Circle" (Robin Eubanks) - 12:11
8. "Amator Silenti" (Steve Nelson) - 9:17

Personnel

Chris Potter

Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist)

Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.-Biography:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Potter spent most of his childhood in Columbia, South Carolina where his mother taught psychology at the University of South Carolina...

 - tenor & soprano saxophones

Robin Eubanks

Robin Eubanks

Robin Eubanks is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks.-Biography:...

 - trombone

Steve Nelson

Steve Nelson (vibraphonist)

Steve Nelson is an American vibraphonist, and has been a member of Dave Holland's Quintet and Big Band for over a decade. He graduated from Rutgers University with both Master's and Bachelor's degrees in music, and his teaching activities have included a position at Princeton University...

 - vibraphone, marimba & tambourine

Dave Holland

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....

- double bass

Nate Smith - drums